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THE HUNT
ANDY HAYES MYSTERIES
by Andrew Welsh-Huggins
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THE HUNT
AN ANDY HAYES MYSTERY
ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
SWALLOW PRESS
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
ATHENS
Swallow Press
An imprint of Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701
© 2017 by Andrew Welsh-Huggins
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This is a work of fiction. The resemblance of any characters to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Welsh-Huggins, Andrew, author.
Title: The hunt : an Andy Hayes mystery / Andrew Welsh-Huggins.
Description: Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, an imprint of Ohio University Press, [2017] | Series: Andy Hayes mysteries
Identifiers: LCCN 2017000575| ISBN 9780804011884 (hardback) | ISBN 9780804040815 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Private investigators—Fiction. | Murder—Investigation—Fiction. | Columbus (Ohio)—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3623.E4824 H86 2017 | DDC 813 /.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017000575
For Sarah, Emma, and Thomas
It is a very human foolishness to insist on the presence of a knife or a gun or a fist in order to recognize the existence of force, when often the most compelling forces on this earth present intangibly, in coercive situations.
—Rachel Moran, Paid For: My Journey through Prostitution
It is a terrible thing, this kindness that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. We have nothing else to give.
—Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness
So I pressed and the lustrous goddess answered me in turn: “Royal son of Laertes, Odysseus, old campaigner, stay on no more in my house against your will. But first another journey calls. . . .”
—Homer, The Odyssey, Book X, Robert Fagles translation
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