This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
While there may be similarities, the words, deeds, beliefs, and/or opinions of all characters herein are fictional and have no connection whatsoever to the actual person whose name they may share or upon whom they may be based, nor does the actual person adopt, express, or acknowledge agreement with any words, deeds, beliefs, and/or opinions of said fictional characters herein.
Copyright © 2012 by Charlie Newton
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
DOUBLEDAY and the portrayal of an anchor with a dolphin are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Lyrics from “Mornin’ Ain’t Comin’ ” by Kenny Herbert
(www.kennyherbertmusic.co.uk).
Grateful acknowledgment is made to New Directions Publishing Corp. and Georges Borchardt, Inc. on behalf of the Estate of Tennessee Williams for permission to reprint excerpts from A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, copyright © 1947 by The University of the South. All rights reserved.
Jacket design by Emily Mahon
Jacket photograph © Grove Pashley / Photographer’s Choice / Getty Images
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Newton, Charlie.
Start shooting : a novel / Charlie Newton. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Police—Fiction. 2. Corruption—Fiction. 3. Crime—Fiction. 4. Race relations—Fiction. 5. Brothers—Fiction. 6. Chicago (Ill.)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3614.E73S73 2011
813’.6—dc22
2011002844
eISBN: 978-0-385-53470-3
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