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FOR JIM,
WHO WAS THERE WITH ME
IN THE STREETS AND TUNNELS
IN THE RED AND THE BLUE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I’m the luckiest SOB in the world. I’m lucky to have editors like David Pomerico and Betsy Mitchell. I’m lucky to have an agent like Jim McCarthy. And I’m lucky to be able to call Jim Geist, Vicki Mau, Jeremy Horwitz, Margaret Danielson, Sheryl Burnham, and George Dake my readers, friends, and family. Thank you, all!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
RICHARD E. GROPP lives on a mountain outside of Seattle with his partner of fifteen years. It is a small mountain. He studied literature and psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has worked as a bookstore clerk, a forklift driver, and an accountant. He has a hard time spelling the word
A Del Rey Trade Paperback Original
Copyright © 2012 by Richard E. Gropp
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gropp, Richard E.
Bad glass/Richard E. Gropp.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-345-53564-1 1. Photographers—Fiction. 2. Quarantine—Fiction. 3. Spokane (Wash.)—Fiction. 4. Psychological fiction. I. Title.
PS3607.R653B33 2012
813?.6—dc23
2012019974
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