Mr. Was

Pete Hautman

Nov 2009 · Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

Jack Lund figures a good day is when his dad's too drunk to beat up his mom.

For Jack, Bogg's End is the end. The end of the turbulent, see-saw years of watching his father go on the wagon and fall right back off gain. Once it took two years, but the inevitable inevitably happened. Now it's just Jack and his mom starting over in the strange old house his grandfather left them.

But the ride's not over yet. Jack's father returns, full of apologies and promises, and for a little while, things are looking up. Then in one terrifying, sickening moment, everything comes crashing back down again.

So Jack runs. He runs through a strange hidden door that takes him back in time to before his parents were born. Before he was born. Maybe with a second chance he can stop the inevitable. At least he's got to try. What Jack doesn't understand, though, is that he can't change his future until he faces his past.

Ratings and reviews

I first read this book in high school at the age of fourteen. Thirteen years later, I own this book, still read it every so often, and still love it. So many twists and turns and the suspense and mystery is all what gets me. Absolutely LOVE this book!!!

One of few titles in this genre that I could actually get to the point where I only wanted to shoot in my chair turn off the television, sit in my chair for hours and just indulge my mind with is book

I don't read books often but this book had such an interesting plot that I read it twice, both times equally entertaining

About the author

Pete Hautman is the author of National Book Award–winning novel Godless, Sweetblood, Hole in the Sky, Stone Cold, The Flinkwater Factor, The Forgetting Machine, and Mr. Was, which was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America, as well as several adult novels. He lives in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Visit him at PeteHautman.com.