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Excerpt from The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

by Jonas Jonasson
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– What the damned hell…!

Then words failed him, before he found his voice again:

You’re a dead man, you old bastard. Once I’ve found you.

Excerpted from The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. Copyright © 2012 by Jonas Jonasson. Excerpted by permission of Hyperion. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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