A Murder of Crows (43 page)

Authors: Terrence McCauley

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BOOK: A Murder of Crows

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Thanks to Debora Oliveira, Melissa Gardella, Esther Cohen Bezborodko, Phyllis Sambuco and Elite Rubin for providing invaluable insight on this book in its earliest stages.

Thanks to my resident gun experts Blackie Noir and Derek Viljoen for their advice on the various weapons that appear in this book, especially Blackie who first told me about the Ruger .454 Alaskan. They had me at ‘it can core a charging bear’.

Thanks to Pam Stack, C.J. Carpenter, Eric Beetner, Maegan Beaumont, Leah Canzoneri, Joe Clifford, Andrew Borja, Dana and Corky King, Brian Madden and the lovely Todd Robinson for their constant support that keeps me going.

Thanks to the crew at The Nat Sherman Townhouse in New York City: The entire Sherman Family, their staff, and all the regulars: Buddha, Billy Judo, The Desert Rose, Mickey Two-Fingers, Joe-Joe, Hector, Mark and the Chairman of the Bored (that’s not a typo) for all the great times and all the great cigars.

Thanks to my agent – The Mick Whisperer - Doug Grad of the Doug Grad Literary Agency for his wisdom, patience and hard work. Thanks to Jason Pinter at Polis Books who was gracious enough to allow me to be part of the impressive, growing Polis family.

And thank you to Arcenia for always being there.

My love and gratitude to you all.

Terrence McCauley is an award-winning writer living in New York City. In 2014, he won the New Pulp Award for Best Author and Best Short Story for
A Bullet’s All it Takes
. His short stories have been featured in
Thuglit, Shotgun Honey, Atomic Noir
, and
Matt Hilton’s Action: Pulse Pounding Tales Vol. 1 & 2
. He recently published THE DEVIL DOGD OF BELLEAU WOOD, which benefits The Semper Fi Fund. His short story
El Cambalache
was nominated for the Thriller Award by International Thriller Writers. He is the author of
Sympathy for the Devi
l, as well as two acclaimed historical crime thrillers,
Prohibition
and
Slow Burn
, all of which are available from
Polis Books
. Visit him online at
www.terrencepmccauley.com
or on Twitter at @
tmccauley_nyc
.

The following is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or used in an entirely fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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