Author: Gary A. Braunbeck

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After her six-year-old daughter is abducted from a parking-lot carnival — leaving behind only a small, hand-carved doll she used to call “Mr. Hands” — a grief-stricken mother uses the doll to summon forth a golem-like creature to take vengeance on those people she feels are abusing children.



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"Braunbeck’s power is that he can see our fear and our pain, and he can bring it to life in a way that can be both terrible and beautiful at the same time. But he can also see light in the darkness, and his stories and novels, no matter how bleak they may become, also contain a kernel of hope, of humanity. Mr. Hands is a fine novel and an important one. It’s hard to read it without being moved. That’s what good fiction should always do." - Horror World

"There are writers who are hyped up as the next big thing, and a future rising star. Then there are writers who have not only fulfilled all of the hype and praise lavished upon them, but have continued to raise the expectations to astronomical levels. And then there is Gary A Braunbeck. With his latest from Leisure, Mr. Hands, Braunbeck has written a tight, literate and easily accessible novel that any fan of the genre should pick up and read immediately...any genre lover, or lover of extremely well written fiction with beautiful use of language and imagery should read this novel. 5 out of 5 stars." — Hellnotes

"Mr. Hands is a very powerful, dark, moving, and relentlessly grim tale filled with Braunbeck's usual muscular prose and solid characterization. This novel really grips the reader and hurls him up and down and shakes him hard." — Tom Piccirilli, author of The Dead Letters and Midnight Road

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