The Bleeding Season

This one’s for everyone on the old crew, dead or alive.

Here’s to the memories, good and bad.

And for Jimmy B., gone but never forgotten.

See you on the other side.

And as always, for my wife Carol, with love.

“You tell yourself it is a bad dream. You tell yourself you have died—you, not the others—and have waked up in hell. But you know better. You know better. There is an end to dreams, and there is no end to this. And when people die they are dead—as who should know better than you?”

—Jim Thompson

The Getaway