Against the ominous backdrop of a national blackout, Pate grabs us by the hand and deftly guides us through the darkness of one man’s apocalypse.  Stark, urban, and cinematic, THE WAY TO GET HERE contains enough wrecked lives to fill up a downtown shelter house and shows us that nothing is more lethal than love.

-Joey Goebel, of Torture the Artist

The writing here has enough of an edge that it feels like Gavin Pate’s been honing it for years, on book after published book. Yet, somehow, this is his first. And that’s scary. I mean, if he’s starting here, there’s no telling where he can take us next.

-Stephen Graham Jones, of Demon Theo

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