SHATTERED was previously published in hardcover under the pseudonym of K. R. Dwyer.
SHATTERED A Berkley Book / published by arrangement with the author Random House edition published 1973
Berkley edition / February 1985
Copyright @ 1973 by Nkui, Inc.
Back cover photo copyright @ Jerry Bauer.
A BERKLEY BOOK c) TM 757,375
Only four blocks from the furnished apartment in Philadelphia, with more than three thousand miles to drive before they joined Courtney in San Francisco, Colin began one of his games. Colin thrived on his games, not those which required a board and movable pieces but those which were played inside the head-word games, idea games, elaborate fantasies. He was a very garrulous and precocious eleven-year-old with more energy than he was able to use. Slender, shy in the company of strangers, bothered by a moderately severe astigmatism in both eyes that required him to wear heavy eyeglasses at all times, he was not much for sports.
He could not exhaust himself in a fast game of foot ball, because none of the athletic boys his own age wanted to play with someone who tripped over his own feet, dropped the ball, and was devastated by even the most delicate tackle. Besides, sports bored him. He was an intelligent kid, an avid reader, and he found his own games more fun than football.
