August

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Born in July

by Audrius Skersys

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How to know if you are awake?

Or maybe your whole life is just a dream?

Engaging story by The New York Times bestseller author Audrius Skersys.

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Then suddenly Matas’ head poked through the gap between the curtains. He nodded to me and the next moment he was standing next to me.

"Well, tell me," he said impatiently, examining me from all sides.

“You tell me,” I retorted, because I hardly understood what was happening here.

"I want you to explain how you did it," Matas continued.

“What?”

“Do you know how you made that focus? And what happened to you next?”

"What the hell are you talking about?" - I answered, nervous about his strange questions.

"You don't remember anything? What is the last thing you remember?” he did not leave me.

I strained my mind and tried to recover my memory. Then I remembered... Walter. Mom... Was it a dream? Then I dreamed of the Czech Republic. Maybe it's a dream now? Everything seemed so unreal that it was hard to comprehend. I looked at Matas trying to understand what was going on. But his eyes were no less confused than mine.

“Well?” he couldn't wait.

I swallowed, yawned, closed my eyes tightly and opened them again. I exercised before speaking the jaw.

"Walter called," I began to tell. “He said about his mother. I passed out. I fell down. I had a dream nonsense. Then I woke up here. In the hospital.”

Matas stared at me with bulging eyes, as if I were some mystical entity he was seeing for the first time in life. Then he began to slowly shake his head:

"You mean you don't remember how you disappeared?"

“Where? When?”

Matas finally understood that I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about. Then he took a deep breath, blew out the air, leaned on my bed, looked around and whispered:

"That friend of your mother called you. Walter. He said something, I didn't hear it. Then you started to faint staggered, eventually falling to the ground. You didn't say anything. You started shaking. I didn't know what to do. I was thinking maybe I should bring some water. I don't know why, it's just the situation, something had to be done. Maybe I would have poured on you, I don't know... Literally, I pour that water into a cup in the kitchen and “BOOM!”,” he shouted louder, raising his hands up and gently lowering. Then he continued in a whisper: “Wow, there was such a loud “Boom!”.”

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Words from Critics

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Randal Stevens

The Guardian

I got the chills so many times toward the end of this book. It completely blew my mind. It managed to surpass my high expectations and be nothing at all like I expected.

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Valerie Olson

The Washnington Post

The unexpected ending is a fitting denouement to an epic and memorable road trip

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Emmett Hall

The Times

From the first words on the first pages, I knew that this book was going to be different. And the end proved it right.

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Calvin Chavez

Publishers Weekly

Elegantly paced, slickly executed, and properly thrilling.

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Elijah Newton

Daily Telegraph

The master of the intelligent thriller.

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Shelley Bailey

New York Post

A story that grips from start to finish. It's a remarkable achievement.

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About the Author

Audrius Skersys

Born in 1991 and is an globaly acclaimed author. In 2021 August, Born in July, became a worldwide bestseller, and it was announced that Skersys would write two further novels in the series. He is also the author of the acclaimed and bestselling Driving through the Universe, and The Murder in the Locked Room.

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