The Hated

Byron looks across the river from New York—and the next thing he knows, he’s in a nameless Hoboken bar, shaking at the sound of a cough. Mars has followed him home.

It is August, and Byron is supposed to stay within New York and New England. He is a returned astronaut, one of six men sent into the cramped darkness of a rocket ship, where a safeguard kept the crew from killing one another—until it wore off. Now memories of Sam, Wally, Gilvey, the captain and the man he calls Chowderhead turn every drink and every familiar sound into a fresh ordeal. Byron’s pension and his pills may keep him going, but they cannot keep the old rage quiet. What happens when the barrier between hatred and action finally gives way?

With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world.

Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.