Cutter and Bone

{{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
Thriller
Suspense
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 as Cutter, Jeff Bridges as Bone, and Lisa Eichhorn as Mo (Maureen).