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Low Men In Yellow Coats

In the summer of 1960, eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield lives with his mother in a quiet Connecticut town. Their routine changes when Ted Brautigan, an elderly stranger, takes a room in their house. Ted seems to know more about the world than anyone should, and he pays Bobby to run errands and keep him company.

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Soon Bobby learns that Ted is being hunted by sinister men in yellow coats, figures who seem to belong to a darker world that few adults notice. As the boy grows closer to Ted, he begins to sense that these threats reach into his own neighborhood, and that he may be the only one who can see them.

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