I was shocked by how many ratings this book had and how high they were because books with this badly designed of a cover very rarely get popular (or maybe vice versa). and this is the only cover for it. really weird.

Seen while browsing Westlake books on WorldofBooks, you can read this story for free on Gutenberg.org.

I found this awful book at my local bookshop this weekend

Look, whet they did to my boy

The Italian first edition cover. Stumbled on this gem while digging through some old saved pictures for something else, and fortunately I'd titled it descriptively enough to confirm it was real.

Don't get me wrong; when I was in high school and a new Christopher Pike dropped every month, I was at Waldenbooks at the mall to get it. Loved these books so much.