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    The Lost Coast: A Larison Short Story
    The Lost Coast: A Larison Short Story
    The Lost Coast: A Larison Short Story
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    The Lost Coast: A Larison Short Story

    By Barry Eisler

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    For Larison, a man off the grid and on the run, the Lost Coast seems like a perfect place to disappear for a while. But when three twisted locals decide Larison looks like an easy target, they unleash a vengeful and dangerous predator with a personal score to settle.

    By internationally bestselling author Barry Eisler, THE LOST COAST is a dark short story featuring rogue black-ops soldier Daniel Larison, last seen in Eisler's INSIDE OUT, which Op-Ed News called a "thriller as good or better than any of Grisham's" and Library Journal called "a relentless and revelatory look into the human cost of those who torture on behalf of their country."

    THE LOST COAST clocks in at around 6,600 words, or approximately 25 pages in print. The download comes with additional material, including a Q&A, in which J.A. Konrath interviews Barry.

    WARNING: this story is intended for mature audiences, and contains depictions of sexual activity...though perhaps not in the way you're expecting.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarry Eisler
    Release dateFeb 22, 2011
    ISBN9781458052247
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    Barry Eisler

    Barry Eisler spent three years in a covert position with the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, then worked as a technology lawyer and startup executive in Silicon Valley and Japan, earning his black belt at the Kodokan Judo Institute along the way. Eisler’s bestselling thrillers have won the Barry Award and the Gumshoe Award for Best Thriller, have been included in numerous “Best of” lists, have been translated into nearly twenty languages, and include the #1 bestseller Livia Lone. Eisler lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and, when he’s not writing novels, blogs about torture, civil liberties, and the rule of law. Learn more at www.barryeisler.com.

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    • 4/5
      This story is not for everyone. First, I would consider that reading Eisler's previous book Inside Out to be essential as that book introduced Larison. And knowing who Larison is and knowing about his ... um ... well ... knowing about how he is different than most other characters present in similar genre fiction is absolutely critical to this story. And make no mistake: The ending of this short story is disturbing. It fits the character, which is not to say that I condone what happens, but some (many?) readers will be angry and offended. But then I think that was part of what Eisler set out to do. I think the point is to make readers think about the issue that confronts Larison and others like him. The difference is that unlike most, Larison has the ability to respond.
    • 4/5
      The Lost Coast by Barry Eisler is a Kindle Short story I downloaded using Kindle Unlimited (KU). The story is preceded by a warning that it is for mature audiences and contains scenes of sexual violence that might be different than what I am accustomed to. I immediately began to search my home for a tracking device. How does he know what I am accustomed to?This short story starts out with descriptions of tradecraft. Everyone has picked up from TV that when you are on the run it is not cool to use credit cards. But what about getting a room on the second floor so you can do an emergency exit via dumpster without breaking your legs? Or the one about keeping everything you don’t need in your car? A person on the run doesn’t want to go back to a hotel and go through check-out procedures. And Larison was on the run. We readers don’t know why. The story will proceed without giving us that unnecessary information.But Larison was lonely in his second-floor bare hotel room. It was time to cruise the town, on foot, and see what action there was to be had. The first bar was too young for him, mostly for college students, the second resembled a penitentiary, the third was more restaurant than bar, but the fourth one was just right. Goldilocks and the three bears revisited. Larison entered the bar, sized up the other clientele and settled on an innocent looking good looking guy. Luring (maybe) Seth to go with him to purchase drugs, the two exited the bar and followed a path to where two bad guys were waiting. They weren’t truly muggers although they might steal targets of opportunity; they were gay bashers and innocent Seth was the bait to the set-up. Unfortunately, the would-be gangsters were dealing with a professional gangster and Larison began to demonstrate his professional skills. Having disposed of the immediate two problems, what should he do with Seth? Remember that warning in the first paragraph above. That is the sort of spoiler surprise. You should read the story.This is my second Eisler story. I look forward to reading more.

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    The Lost Coast - Barry Eisler

    the lost coast

    barry eisler

    Copyright © 2011 by Barry Eisler. All rights reserved.

    This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writing from the author or publisher.

    Smashwords Edition: May 2012

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    the lost coast

    For Larison, a man off the grid and on the run, the sleepy northern California town of Arcata, gateway to the state’s fabled Lost Coast, seems like a perfect place to disappear for a while. But Arcata isn’t nearly as sleepy as it seems, and when three locals decide Larison would make a perfect target for their twisted sport, Larison exacts a lifetime of vengeance in one explosive evening. Warning: this story is intended for mature audiences, and contains depictions of sexual activity, though perhaps not in the way you’re expecting.

    contents

    The Lost Coast, A Larison Short Story

    Preview: THE DETACHMENT, A John Rain Thriller

    Q and A: J.A. Konrath Interviews Barry Eisler

    Preview: PARIS IS A BITCH, A John Rain Short Story

    Preview: BE THE MONKEY, A Conversation between J.A. Konrath and Barry Eisler

    About the Author

    Books by Barry Eisler

    Contact Barry

    Preview: STIRRED: A Thriller, by Blake Crouch and J. A. Konrath

    Preview: RUN, by Blake Crouch

    the lost coast

    a larison short story

    The sun was setting on the redwoods and Larison thought it was time to find a place to stop. He’d been driving north from Los Angeles for ten days, sometimes moving continuously during the daylight hours, other times going not very far at all, never more than one night in the same place. He knew the people looking for him had no way to track him, but even if they did, there would inevitably be some lag between the moment they could find and fix him and the deployment of actual forces. The more he kept moving, the more any information his pursuers managed to develop would be useless by the time they could do anything to act on it.

    He’d been traveling the coastal highway, but north of Westport it had turned inland, the terrain apparently too rugged for the road to continue along the Pacific, and not long after it had died without fanfare, collapsing into Route 101. He knew from the map on the passenger seat that 101, also called the Redwood Highway, would meander northwest

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