Release Me (Stark Trilogy, #1)(168)

To Lyric Bartholomay, Cory O’Neel, Jason Ryan Arment, Julie Babbit, Chris Herring, Michael Kimber, Peter Percy, and Elizabeth Whitley for their help with the heavy research that went into this novel.

To Tyler Cabot, Rob Spillman, Kevin Larimer, Donovan Hohn, and Radhika Jones for their support. To Dean Bakopoulos for friendship. To Peter Straub and John Irving for wisdom and encouragement.

To my colleagues and students at St. Olaf College, Pacific University, and Iowa State University.

To the National Endowment for the Arts.

And a special thanks to my family, especially my wife, whose tolerance and enthusiasm and partnership mean everything. I’d lasso the moon for you, Chief.





About the Author


BENJAMIN PERCY was raised in the high desert of Central Oregon. He is the author of the novel The Wilding and two short-story collections, Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk. His honors include a Whiting Writers Award, the Pushcart Prize, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and The Paris Review’s George Plimpton Prize for Fiction. His fiction and nonfiction have been read on National Public Radio and published by Esquire, GQ, Men’s Journal, Outside, Time, and the Wall Street Journal. He is the writer-in-residence at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.