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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
    Audiobook41 minutes

    The Lost Coast: A Larison Short Story

    Written by Barry Eisler

    Narrated by Barry Eisler

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 15, 2011
    ISBN9781455851492
    Author

    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
      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.
    • 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.