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“In Search of the Assassin” by Jay Hopler originally appeared in a longer form in Pequod.

From This Gun for Hire by Graham Greene. Copyright ©1936 by Graham Greene, renewed. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc. Appeared as A Gun for Sale in the U.K. Used by permission of David Higham Associates Ltd.

“The Hit Man” by T. Coraghessan Boyle. Copyright ©1980 by T. Coraghessan Boyle. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. for the author.

“Gentlemen, The King!” by Damon Runyon, from Guys Dolls: Twenty Stories by Damon Runyon. Copyright ©1956 by Damon Runyon. Reprinted by permission of Penguin Books, U.K.

“Loose Ends” by Bharati Mukherjee, from The Middleman and Other Stories. Copyright ©1980 by Bharati Mukherjee. Reprinted by permission of the author.

From The Butcher’s Boy by Thomas Perry. Copyright ©1982 by Thomas Perry. Reprinted by permission of Lescher & Lescher Ltd. for the author.

“The Killers” by Ernest Hemingway from Men Without Women. Reprinted by permission of Scribner, a Division of Simon and Schuster. Copyright ©1927 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Copyright renewed ©1955 by Ernest Hemingway. Also: © Hemingway Foreign Rights Trust. All rights outside the U.S., Hemingway Foreign Rights Trust, by a deed of trust of Mary Hemingway 16 March, 1992 as widow and sole legatee of the author.

“Screen Image: (Royal Emerald Hotel, Nassau)” by Mark Rudman, from The Millennium Hotel. Copyright ©1996 by Mark Rudman. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Same, Only Different!” by Jiri Kajane, from Wake Up. It’s Time to Go to Sleep. Copyright ©1993 by Jiri Kajand. Translated by Kevin Phelan and Bill U’Ren. Translation Copyright ©1995 by Kevin Phelan and Bill U’Ren. This translation originally appeared in the minnesota review. Reprinted by permission of the author and translators.

“Hit Man” by Charles Bukowski, from South of No North. Copyright ©1973 by Charles Bukowski. Reprinted by permission of Black Sparrow Press.

“The Death of Mrs. Sheer” by Joyce Carol Oates, from Upon the Sweeping Flood. Copyright ©1964 by Joyce Carol Oates. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Memories of West Street and Lepke” by Robert Lowell, from Life Studies. Copyright ©1956, 1959 by Robert Lowell. Copyright renewed ©1987 by Harriet Lowell, Sheridan Lowell and Caroline Lowell. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. and by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.

“Cain” by Andrew Vachss, from Born Bad. Copyright ©1994 by Andrew Vachss. Reprinted by permission of Vintage Books, a Division of Random House, Inc.

“When This Man Dies” by Lawrence Block, from Sometimes They Bite. Copyright ©1983 by Lawrence Block. Reprinted by permission of Knox Burger Associates on behalf of the author.

From Ripley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith. Copyright ©1993 by Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“In the Beginning” by Ian McEwan, excerpted from a novel in progress. Copyright ©1995 by Ian McEwan. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. for the author.

“The Assassin” by David Ray originally appeared in The Chicago Review. Copyright ©1996 by David Ray. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Shelter by Dave Kost. Copyright ©1993 by Dave Kost. Reprinted by permission of the author.