—Sara J. Henry, Anthony Award–winning author of A Cold and Lonely Place
“With sharp wit and prose that brings the 80s to life in all its stone-washed glory, Lou Berney tells a complex story of characters struggling to make sense of life in the aftermath of massacre and abandonment. Affecting, funny, and unfailingly honest, The Long and Faraway Gone is an extraordinary book.”
—M. P. Cooley, author of Ice Shear
“Berney takes you places you’re not sure you want to go and brings you out again with a sure hand. The Long and Faraway Gone is a satisfyingly complete deep-dive into a complicated history, with not only suspense but also a compelling resolution.”
—Carrie La Seur, author of The Home Place
“Slick, sleek, and wildly entertaining. These words sing, managing to be at once lean and evocative, confident and wry. Lou Berney makes everything look easy.”
—Marcus Sakey, author of the Brilliance saga, host of the Travel Channel’s Hidden City
“Like Carl Hiaasen, Berney delights in the cartoonish. Like Elmore Leonard, he can drive a plot. What sets him apart is how well he evokes love, making the romance at the heart of this cinematic book as compelling as the mystery.”
—Boston Globe
“Witty and nimble comedic thriller . . . the exotic locales are vibrant, the supporting cast larger than life, and the plot hums along without a wasted page.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Every character is memorable. . . . The plot turns are constant, and the dialogue is sharp.”
—Booklist (starred review)
Credits
Cover design by Adam Johnson
Cover photograph © by Martin Soeby/Gallery Stock
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.
THE LONG AND FARAWAY GONE. Copyright © 2015 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 e-book 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 hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
FIRST EDITION
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EPub Edition FEBRUARY 2015 ISBN: 9780062292445
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