The Cold Millions: A Novel, стр. 105

And finally, I want to give the biggest thank-you to my kids, Alec, Ava, and Brooklyn, and to my wife, Anne, for the profound love, support, and inspiration.

About the Author

JESS WALTER is the author of the number one New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins, the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets, the National Book Award finalist The Zero, the Edgar Award–winning Citizen Vince, Land of the Blind, the New York Times Notable Book Over Tumbled Graves, and the story collection We Live in Water. He lives in Spokane, Washington, with his family.

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Also by Jess Walter

FICTION

We Live in Water

Beautiful Ruins

The Financial Lives of the Poets

The Zero

Citizen Vince

Land of the Blind

Over Tumbled Graves

NONFICTION

Ruby Ridge (previously released as Every Knee Shall Bow)

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE COLD MILLIONS. Copyright © 2020 by Jess Walter. 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.

Cover design by Milan Bozic

Cover image © Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky, Boundless, 1979/Bridgeman Images (sky)

FIRST EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Walter, Jess, 1965- author.

Title: The cold millions : a novel / Jess Walter.

Description: First Edition. | New York, NY : Harper, [2020]

Identifiers: LCCN 2020000620 (print) | LCCN 2020000621 (ebook) | ISBN 9780062868084 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780063029699 | ISBN 9780062868107 (ebook)

Classification: LCC PS3573.A4722834 C65 2020 (print) | LCC PS3573.A4722834 (ebook) | DDC 813/.54—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020000620

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020000621

Digital Edition OCTOBER 2020 ISBN: 978-0-06-286810-7

Version 08122020

Print ISBN: 978-0-06-286808-4

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