The Builders (11 page)
Authors: Daniel Polansky
The Builders
has a special place in my heart, being essentially a one-note joke that remains funny for me five-odd years after I came up with it—thanks to you, the reader, for indulging my adolescent sensibilities! Professional thanks to Justin Landon, Lee Harris, Jared Shurin, and Chris Kepner. Aesthetic appreciation to my obvious stylistic influences, including but not limited to Frederick Forsyth, Akira Kurosawa, Sergio Leone, Sam Peckinpah, and William Goldman. Thanks to family and friends; for the roll call you can look at every other book I published and strike off the ex-girlfriends.
Daniel
Polansky
was born in Baltimore in 1984. He was living in Brooklyn when he wrote this, but by the time you read it he might be somewhere else.
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THE BUILDERS
Copyright © 2015 by Daniel Polansky
Cover art copyright © 2015 by Richard Anderson
Edited by Justin Landon
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