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Dehydration by Steven Henry

An Ian Thompson Story

Die tomorrow. Live today.

Ian Thompson always wanted to prove he was tough. At twelve he was getting in fistfights with older boys and running messages for the Irish Mob. Then he met Mr. Carlyle, the first grown-up who really seemed to care what happened to him. He grew up and straightened out, but he still had something to prove. So he joined the Marines.

But a routine mission goes wrong. His helicopter is shot down in the Afghan mountains and all but one of his comrades are killed. Ian is on his own, in hostile territory, with a wounded buddy depending on him. Desperately low on food and water and hunted by men who want him dead, Ian is forced to the edge of human endurance. As days pass with no sleep and no end in sight, the past and present blur together. Ian must draw on everything he’s got, and everything he’s been taught, to earn the chance to come home.

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Note: May contain spoilers for the Erin O’Reilly Mysteries. We recommend reading Dehydration after Erin O’Reilly #9: Flashback.