The Ninth Life of Louis DraxLouis Drax is a boy like no other. He is brilliant and strange, and every year something violent seems to happen to him. On his ninth birthday, Louis goes on a picnic with his parents and falls off a cliff. The details are shrouded in mystery. Louis's mother is shell-shocked; his father has vanished. And after some confusion Louis himself, miraculously alive but deep in a coma, arrives at Dr. Pascal Dannachet's celebrated coma clinic...Full of astonishing twists and turns, this is a masterful tale of the secrets the human mind can hide. |
Contents
Section 1 | 14 |
Section 2 | 37 |
Section 3 | 56 |
Section 4 | 83 |
Section 5 | 91 |
Section 6 | 95 |
Section 7 | 103 |
Section 8 | 125 |
Section 11 | 173 |
Section 12 | 177 |
Section 13 | 193 |
Section 14 | 195 |
Section 15 | 203 |
Section 16 | 207 |
Section 17 | 220 |
Section 18 | 225 |
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