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Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page THE QUICK ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE TEN ELEVEN TWELVE THIRTEEN FOURTEEN FIFTEEN SIXTEEN SEVENTEEN EIGHTEEN NINETEEN TWENTY TWENTY-ONE TWENTY-TWO TWENTY-THREE TWENTY-FOUR TWENTY-FIVE TWENTY-SIX TWENTY-SEVEN TWENTY-EIGHT TWENTY-NINE THIRTY THE NEXT ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE TEN ELEVEN TWELVE THIRTEEN FOURTEEN FIFTEEN SIXTEEN SEVENTEEN EIGHTEEN NINETEEN TWENTY TWENTY-ONE TWENTY-TWO TWENTY-THREE TWENTY-FOUR TWENTY-FIVE TWENTY-SIX TWENTY-SEVEN TWENTY-EIGHT TWENTY-NINE THIRTY THIRTY-ONE THIRTY-TWO THIRTY-THREE THIRTY-FOUR THIRTY-FIVE THIRTY-SIX THIRTY-SEVEN Praise for THE QUICK and THE NEXT by International Horror-Guild Award Nominee DAN VINING “Eerie . . . supernatural noir.”—Los Angeles Times “Dan Vining has reinvented the hard-boiled detective genre and given it a supernatural twist . . . A hip, high-octane plunge through L.A. noir.” —Jeff Long, author of The Descent “Strange, haunting, cool—and very hard to put down.” —Michael Marshall, author of The Straw Men and Blood of Angels “Such a breath of fresh night air. An extremely cool story rendered by a guy who really knows how to sling the language to maximum effect.” —Rockne S. O’Bannon, creator of Alien Nation “A great, cynical, hard-boiled L.A. PI novel featuring a fun cast of sleaze monkeys and a great view of the city. Then about halfway through came a curve, no, a knuckling slider—the most surprising plot twist I’ve ever read maybe anywhere . . . And it worked. From there, [it] went somewhere I never expected. And when it was over, it felt like it was still going somewhere else. Very cool.”—Flint Dille, screenwriter, Constantine “Deft, dazzling, and mercurial. The high concept aside, it’s the characters who linger long after the last page is turned: vivid and real if not exactly alive.”— Davin Seay, author of Take Me to the River “Fans of Jim Butcher’s supernatural noir Dresden Files series will enjoy this unusual work. A great read.”—Library Journal “[A] Chandleresque style and atmosphere [and] . . . a great twist. Smart, fast- paced, entertaining. I didn’t want it to end.” —Kevin Jones, screenwriter “Different, quirky, and scary.”—Midwest Book Review “The book has a real voice, style, a graceful blend of caustic observation, nostalgia, humor, and, yes, poetry . . . Revelatory. Readers of mysteries . . . are certainly going to get more than they bargained for.” —William Mickelberry, screenwriter, Black Dog “Vining successfully weaves together two very different stories . . . [His] neo- noir prose sports a refreshing twenty-fi rst-century hipness.” —Publishers Weekly “A private eye book with a supernatural twist . . . fascinating characters and a really cool woo woo element . . . A noirish, haunting mystery.” —Spinetingler Magazine “Dark, surreal . . . If this were a movie, it’d probably be shot in black and white . . . [but] this isn’t your ordinary murder mystery. It demands that you think, that you become involved. A final word or two of advice: be wary of Sailors. And stay home on the night of a blue moon.” —Round Table Reviews “Dan Vining is one of the few authors who can consistently write great urban noir with a supernatural twist . . . So very entertaining.” —Futures Anthology Mystery Magazine THE BERKLEY PUBLISHING GROUP Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd., 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Group Ireland, 25 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd.) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty. Ltd.) Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd., 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi—110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd.) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty.) Ltd., 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd., Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England This book is an original publication of The Berkley Publishing Group. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content. Copyright © 2009 by Dan Vining. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights. Purchase only authorized editions. ® BERKLEY is a registered trademark of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. The “B” design is a trademark of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. PRINTING HISTORY Berkley trade paperback edition / December 2009 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Vining, Dan. Among the living / Dan Vining.—Berkley trade paperback ed. p. cm. eISBN : 978-1-10115170-9 1. Private investigators—Fiction. 2. Los Angeles (Calif.)—Fiction. I. Title. PS3622. I56A83 2009 813’.6—dc22 2009036407

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