tailieunhanh - THE ENTITLED A novel by Frank Deford

FOR HOWIE, IT WAS, at last, neither resignation on the one hand, nor anger on the other. No, it was simply awful, horrible disappointment that tore him apart. That it all must end this way. No, not this way. Any way it ended would be a calamity, for despair would follow, and Howie understood himself well enough to know that he did not possess the creative resources ever to really overcome that despair. “I’m a dead man. I know I won’t get outta Baltimore alive.” | THE ENTITLED a novel by Frank Deford Of Sourcebooks Inc NAPERVILLE ILLINOIS Copyright 2007 by Frank Deford Cover and internal design 2007 by Sourcebooks Inc. Cover photo credit line designer to add Internal permissions credit lines designer to add Sourcebooks and the colophon are registered trademarks of Sourcebooks Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval sys-tems except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews without permission in writing from its publisher Sourcebooks Inc. The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious or are used fictitiously. Any similarity to real persons living or dead is purely coincidental and not intended by the author. Published by Sourcebooks Landmark an imprint of Sourcebooks Inc. . Box 4410 Naperville Illinois 60567-4410 630 961-3900 Fax 630 961-2168 ISBN-13 978-1-4022-1988-7 Printed and bound in the United States of America. XX 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2