THE CLEANER
Brett Battles lives and writes in Los Angeles. He grew up on a navy base in the middle of the desert, where his father was a civilian physicist working for the military. He is currently Executive Producer for E! Entertainment Television and has three children.
BRETT
BATTLES
THE CLEANER
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To Mom and Dad
For all the obvious
and not so obvious reasons
Acknowledgments
To paraphrase John Donne, no writer is an island. While much of the work authors do is done alone, the final version of any work is touched by many. This book is no exception.
