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{{short description|1976 novel by Newton Thornburg}}
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{{Infobox book
| italic title      = 
| name              = Cutter and Bone
| author            = [[Newton Thornburg]]
| image             = File:Cutter and Bone.jpg
| caption           = First edition
| country           = United States
| language          = English
| genre             = Mystery<br>Thriller<br>Suspense<br>Crime Fiction
| set_in            = United States
| publisher         = [[Little, Brown]]
| publisher2        = 
| pub_date          = 
| english_pub_date  = 
| published         = 1976
| media_type        = Print (hard cover)
| pages             = 346
}}

'''''Cutter and Bone''''' is a 1976 [[thriller novel]] by [[Newton Thornburg]] about a [[Vietnam veteran]], Alexander Cutter, who tries to convince his friend, Richard Bone, that Bone witnessed a murder. It was adapted to film by director [[Ivan Passer]] as ''[[Cutter's Way]]'' (1981) which starred [[John Heard (actor)|John Heard]] as Cutter, [[Jeff Bridges]] as Bone, and [[Lisa Eichhorn]] as Mo (Maureen).

==Release details==
* Thornburg, Newton. ''Cutter and Bone''. Serpent's Tail (reprint), 2001. {{ISBN|1-85242-676-4}}

[[Category:1976 American novels]]
[[Category:American thriller novels]]
[[Category:American novels adapted into films]]
[[Category:Little, Brown and Company books]]


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