# Badlands

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- Book: [Badlands](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-montanari/badlands) ([Badlands.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-montanari/badlands.md))
- Authors: [Richard Montanari](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-montanari)
- Publisher: Ballantine Books
- ISBN: 978-03-4549-243-2
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2009-08-25
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A teenage runaway’s body is found in the basement of a rancid tenement building in the desolate, dangerous North Philly district dubbed the Badlands. The inexplicable cause of death: drowning. Months...