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  The Remington James Box Set

  Remington James

  Michael Lister

  Published by Pulpwood Press, 2017.

  Also by Michael Lister

  Jimmy "Soldier" Riley Noir Mysteries

  The Big Goodbye

  John Jordan Mysteries

  Power in the Blood

  A Compassionate Cop Vol. 2

  Blood Betrayal

  Blood Ties

  Blood Stone (Coming Soon)

  Special 20th Anniversary Edition of Power in the Blood

  Cold Blood

  Blood Shot

  The Wedding

  Merrick McKnight

  Thunder Beach

  A Certain Retribution

  Remington James

  Double Exposure

  Separation Anxiety

  The Remington James Box Set

  The Meaning Series

  Finding the Way Again

  Meaning Every Moment

  The Meaning of Life in Movies

  Standalone

  Burnt Offerings

  A Compassionate Cop

  Killer Thrillers Volume 1

  Written in Blood Volume 5: Cold Blood, Blood Betrayal, Blood Shot

  Watch for more at Michael Lister’s site.

  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.

  * * *

  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.

  * * *

  There are 2 Sequels to DOUBLE EXPOSURE — BLOOD SHOT and SEPARATION ANXIETY.

  Both books, as individual titles or in a box set, are available for a special discounted price today!

  Get BLOOD SHOT or THE REMINGTON JAMES COLLECTION Today!

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  (Remington James Novels)

  Double Exposure

  (includes intro by Michael Connelly)

  Separation Anxiety

  Blood Shot

  * * *

  (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

  * * *

  (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

  * * *

  (Merrick McKnight / Reggie Summers Novels)

  Thunder Beach

  A Certain Retribution

  Blood Oath

  Blood Shot

  * * *

  (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.