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    The Clearing of Travis Coble
    The Clearing of Travis Coble
    The Clearing of Travis Coble
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    The Clearing of Travis Coble

    By Jonathan Janz

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    Travis Coble didn’t kill and eat his family. At least that’s what a jury decided twenty years ago. But like Lizzie Borden, Travis Coble was branded guilty by an angry public and consigned to a life of suspicious whispers and sidelong stares. Now, Professor Dick Myers wants to clear Travis’s name once and for all. An interview with the reclusive mountain man would not only bring Myers fame—it could save his job.

    But Myers will find more than a good story in Coble’s isolated shack in the Smoky Mountains. He will find the truth about what happened twenty years ago...and the true meaning of horror.

    A new work of terror from the author of the worldwide bestseller Old Order.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUntreed Reads
    Release dateMar 5, 2013
    ISBN9781611875232
    The Clearing of Travis Coble
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    Jonathan Janz

    Jonathan Janz is the author of more that fifteen novels and numerous shorter works. Since debuting in 2012, Jonathan’s work has been lauded by Booklist, Publishers Weekly, The Library Journal, and many others. He lives in West Lafayette, Indiana. Jonathan Janz grew up between a dark forest and a graveyard, which explains everything. Brian Keene named his debut novel The Sorrows “the best horror novel of 2012.”

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      The Clearing of Travis Coble - Jonathan Janz

      The Clearing of Travis Coble

      By Jonathan Janz

      Copyright 2013 by Jonathan Janz

      Cover Copyright 2013 by Ginny Glass and Untreed Reads Publishing

      The author is hereby established as the sole holder of the copyright. Either the publisher (Untreed Reads) or author may enforce copyrights to the fullest extent.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold, reproduced or transmitted by any means in any form or given away to other people without specific permission from the author and/or publisher. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to the living or dead is entirely coincidental.

      Also by Jonathan Janz and Untreed Reads Publishing

      Old Order

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      The Clearing of Travis Coble

      By Jonathan Janz

      Myers climbed out of the Civic and passed a sweaty wrist across a sweatier brow. As he stretched his arms, his back unleashed a barrage of meaty popping sounds. He glanced at the car and grunted. The mountain path had painted the silver Civic white. He drew a finger over the hot metal to make sure his car was still there under the dust, then wiped the chalky powder on one hip of his linen trousers. He took a deep drag of the morning air and felt its dusty heat baking his lungs. A colleague in Chicago had told him that Tennessee was a bad place to be in July, and now Dick understood why. A gang of mosquitoes hovered over the road in a menacing black cloud. Why, he wondered, would anyone live in such a place?

      Padding along the packed dirt road in his ill-chosen loafers, Myers tried to ignore the sizzling of the Civic’s weary engine. The car had never broken down on him before, but he’d never driven it up a mountain either. The task before him loomed formidable, and the thought of getting stranded up here was enough to bring a chill, despite the suffocating heat. What if he ended up like one of the characters in Deliverance? People always talked about the guy who got raped, but really, none of them made out very well. If that was what a man had to go through to learn more about himself, to hell with it. Myers needed no harrowing battle with crazed hillbillies to achieve illumination. His problem was that he’d already achieved it, and what had been illuminated would have been better off left in the dark. While most men in their late forties came to a crossroads, Myers found himself at a dead end. He knew his days at the university were numbered.

      Jesus, it was hot. If it wasn’t a hundred degrees, it would be soon. What good was the shade, Myers wondered, if all it did was stifle the breeze? He ambled down the lane, the leather satchel already hanging heavy on his shoulder. To his left towered a hulking wall of evergreens. They glowered down at him like hostile sentries.

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