Аннотация
David Freed
Flat Spin
For Karoline and Jerry, who gave me life
and
Don and Mitch, who gave me wings
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
“There are three rules for writing the novel,” the great William Somerset Maugham once said. “Unfortunately no one knows what they are.” With all due respect to Maugham’s literary genius, I believe that one of those rules is to be surrounded by smart, supportive friends and relatives who can both challenge and comfort a humble scribe as he lurches along that darkly self-doubting path that is a first novel.
I am indebted to many such wonderful people. Their myriad contributions appear tangibly on the pages of this book, even if their names do not.
My thanks to El Jefe, author par excellence and former Navy SEAL Chuck Pfarrer, whose courage and inspiration by example, generosity of spirit, and depthless humor over two-plus decades of friendship have hauled me out of more than a few shell craters of my own m...
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