by Lou Berney
This list is starting to drone on, I realize, and I don’t want to be that costume designer at the Oscars who has to be dragged off stage as the orchestra swells. So here, without the elaboration they deserve, and in no particular order, are people I’m grateful to for one reason or another (usually multiple reasons): Dana Kaye, Jeremy Bell, Michael Sheresky, Ramses Ishak, Ben Jacobson, Frank Lunn, Jim and Katy Harrigan, Steve and Sue Ellen Harrigan, the Sanchez-Westenberg family, Thomas Cooney, Rick Klingenberg.
And finally I’d like to thank my wife, Christine, without whom I would be completely lost.
About the Author
LOU BERNEY is an accomplished writer, teacher, and liar who has written feature screenplays and created TV pilots for Warner Brothers, Paramount, Focus Features, ABC, and Fox, among others. His short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, the Pushcart Prize anthology, and other publications. His first novel, Gutshot Straight, was named one of the ten best debut crime novels of the year by Booklist and nominated for a Barry Award.
www.louberney.com
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Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
WHIPLASH RIVER. Copyright © 2012 by Lou Berney. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks.
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