ABOUT THE AUTHOR
RICHARD E. GROPP lives on a mountain outside of Seattle with his partner of fifteen years. It is a small mountain. He studied literature and psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has worked as a bookstore clerk, a forklift driver, and an accountant. He has a hard time spelling the word broccoli, and in his spare time he dabbles in photography and cooking.
Copyright
Bad Glass is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, 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.
A Del Rey Trade Paperback Original
Copyright © 2012 by Richard E. Gropp
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
DEL REY is a registered trademark and the Del Rey colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gropp, Richard E.
Bad glass/Richard E. Gropp.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-345-53564-1
1. Photographers—Fiction. 2. Quarantine—Fiction. 3. Spokane (Wash.)—Fiction. 4. Psychological fiction. I. Title.
PS3607.R653B33 2012
813′.6—dc23
2012019974
Frontispiece illustration: mckenna71 at stock.xchng
Cover design: David G. Stevenson
All cover photographs © Shutterstock,
except front cover, lower left © Mike Bryan
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