Gerald’s Game

This book is dedicated, with love and admiration, to six good women:

Margaret Spruce Morehouse

Catherine Spruce Graves

Stephanie Spruce Leonard

Anne Spruce Labree

Tabitha Spruce King

Marcella Spruce

(Sadie) gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer.

“You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You’re all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!”

– W. Somerset Maugham,

“Rain”