The Grey

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Thanks to Eric Simonoff, Kirby Kim, Britton Schey, George Andreou, and Gordon Lish, who made this book possible.  And, thanks to Joe Carnahan, Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo, Dallas Roberts, Nonso Anozie, Joe Anderson, Ben Bray, James Badge Dale, Jules Daly, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott and the many, many others who suffered cold and wind and devoted heart and passion to make the film The Grey.  Finally, thanks to my mother, who made me write, and my father, who taught me how.

For my wife, and our children, and our life together.

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Four weeks on, four weeks off.  When you’re off, you sit in a bar in Anchorage, stare at the bottles, sleep in a motel, if you don’t keep a house, or aren’t welcome there, and bit by bit you drain away whatever you made when you were on.  When you’re on, it’s easier, you’re already numb from the cold, which is down in your blood, from the air in, from the ground up, breath by breath and step by step.  Everything’s over-heated, the food hall, the bar, the game lounge, everybody steams.  You come in from a shift, the ice melts off you, drops on your dinner tray, or in your drink, if that’s your dinner.

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