The Remington James Box Set
Remington James
Michael Lister
Published by Pulpwood Press, 2017.
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Cold Blood
Blood Shot
The Wedding
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A Certain Retribution
Remington James
Double Exposure
Separation Anxiety
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Finding the Way Again
Meaning Every Moment
The Meaning of Life in Movies
Standalone
Burnt Offerings
A Compassionate Cop
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The Remington James Box Set
DOUBLE EXPOSURE, BLOOD SHOT, SEPARATION ANXIETY
Michael Lister
Pulpwood Press
Collection Copyright © 2017 by Michael Lister
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
Contents
Double Exposure
A Note on Style
Introduction by Michael Connelly
Double Exposure
Start BLOOD SHOT Now!
Also by Michael Lister
1. BLOOD SHOT Sample Chapters
2. BLOOD SHOT Sample Chapters
3. BLOOD SHOT Sample Chapters
Blood Shot
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Separation Anxiety
Dedication
Thank you
Author’s note
Untitled
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105
Chapter 106
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Chapter 110
Chapter 111
Chapter 112
Chapter 113
Chapter 114
Chapter 115
Chapter 116
Also by Michael Lister
Double Exposure
a Remington James Thriller
Copyright © 2009 by Michael Lister
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
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(Remington James Novels)
Double Exposure
(includes intro by Michael Connelly)
Separation Anxiety
Blood Shot
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(John Jordan Novels)
Power in the Blood
Blood of the Lamb
Flesh and Blood
(Special Introduction by Margaret Coel)
The Body and the Blood
Blood Sacrifice
Rivers to Blood
Innocent Blood
(Special Introduction by Michael Connelly)
Blood Money Blood Moon
Blood Cries
Blood Oath
Blood Work
Cold Blood
Blood Betrayal
Blood Shot
Blood Ties
Blood Trail
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(Jimmy “Soldier” Riley Novels)
The Big Goodbye
The Big Beyond
The Big Hello
The Big Bout
The Big Blast
In a Spider’s Web (short story)
The Big Book of Noir
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(Merrick McKnight / Reggie Summers Novels)
Thunder Beach
A Certain Retribution
Blood Oath
Blood Shot
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(Sam Michaels / Daniel Davis Novels)
Burnt Offerings
Separation Anxiety
Blood Oath
Cold Blood
Blood Shot
(Love Stories)
Carrie’s Gift
(Short Story Collections)
North Florida Noir
Florida Heat Wave
Delta Blues
Another Quiet Night in Desperation
(The Meaning Series)
Meaning Every Moment
The Meaning of Life in Movies
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A Note on Style
To tell this story about a wildlife photographer, I employ a style that I think of as the literary equivalent of snapshots. Ordinarily I attempt to paint with words. With this novel I’m attempting to use language to take photographs. This leads to a more lyrical style. I hope you like it. In keeping with this more picturesque, poetic prose, I use as little punctuation as possible, and instead of quotations marks I use em dashes to indicate dialog. It is my sincere wish that all of this enhances your experience—even if it takes a few moments to get accustomed to. Thank you for reading!
Michael
Introduction by Michael Connelly
High Velocity
by Michael Connelly
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When you read the words of praise that are found on the back covers of every book that is published these days, you often see the promise that you will not be able to stop reading it once you’ve begun. That you will be glued to your seat, that this is a page-turner that cannot be put down or aside.
Well, as I write this, I am fifty-three years old. I have read a lot of books so far, somewhere in the thousands. I have to report that the experience described above so often and on so many books has only happened to me three times. And one of those times was when I sat down to read this book, Double Exposure, by Michael Lister.
That not only makes this book worth reading, in my opinion, but worth studying as well. How does Lister accomplish this? How do you make a reader shut out the TV and the family and the rest of the whole wide world and sit still for 200-plus pages of written story? In this day and age it seems to me to be an impossible accomplishment.
My study and my conclusion is that Lister accomplishes this by adhering faithfully to that adage that less is more. On every page and in every paragraph of Double Exposure, less is always more.
Let’s begin with the story – the framework into which that author puts his words. (And I promise not to give too much away.) A man goes to the woods, makes a terrible and dangerous discovery, and now must find his way out of the woods in order to bring this discovery to the people. That’s it. That is the essence of this book’s story.
It is the words and how they are chosen and how they are delivered that make this book special. Less is more. Always. Lister chooses the road not often traveled. He elects the minimalist approach. He takes a poet’s view to the novel. Short sentences – many times only one word – combine to create a velocity in the story that cannot be denied. The reader is compelled to move with the same speed, to move through these woods like a man running for his life.
It is so easy to do the opposite. To take a moment and lard it with language. To say in ten words what needs only one. It is the writer’s prerogative to create and more words mean more creativity, right? It can, but not always. Not here. Here the words are short and swift. Elegiac, like a two-hundred page poem. They skip on the waters of the imagination like well-polished stones. Together they create the secret ingredient of every good book ever written; momentum. This book flat out moves and it inexorably takes the reader along for its ride. You are glued to your seat. You can’t put this book down until the last page. There is an art in that, no doubt in my mind.
-- Michael Connelly
Double Exposure
Evening.
Fall. North Florida.
Bruised sky above rusted rim of earth.
Black forest backlit by plum-colored clouds. Receding glow. Expanding dark.
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