Free (Kindle/Nook) Untouchable by Scott O'Connor

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Untouchable by Scott O'Connor (Adams Media)

Product Description

In his first novel, UNTOUCHABLE, Scott O'Connor speaks softly and somehow manages to make something beautiful of unspeakable matters--like the gruesome mop-up after someone has taken a gun to his head. These are the matters that fall to David Darby, a strapping fellow with an armful of tattoos and a sensitive attitude toward his job as a trauma site technician. If Darby's profession has made him something of an untouchable, his young son has become a pariah at school because he refuses to speak, a self-imposed punishment after the death of his mother. ("He had," he's convinced, "made her sick and sad.") O'Connor tells a wisp of a story, but in a voice so insistently stirring, you want to lean in close to catch every word.--New York Times Book Review

It is the autumn of 1999. A year has passed since Lucy Darby's unexpected death, leaving her husband David and son Whitley to mend the gaping hole in their lives. David, a trauma-site cleanup technician, spends his nights expunging the violent remains of strangers, helping their families to move on, though he is unable to do the same. Whitley – an 11 year-old social pariah known simply as The Kid – hasn't spoken since his mother's death. Instead, he communicates through a growing collection of notebooks, living in a safer world of his own silent imagining.

[carpetmojo]

That was fun - not available in UK in ebook, but there are about 50,000 books with the word "Untouchable" in the title !

Not all by Scott O'Conner .....

[Susan Crealock]

Also free from Barnes & Noble

[ATDrake]

Also free from Sony (available to Canadians).

[koland]

Sony listing shows $0, but ends up $7.99 in the cart (in the US).