title: Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)
author: Diana Secker Tesdell
description: <b>Diana Secker Tesdell</b> is the editor of the Everyman's Pocket Classic anthologies <i>Christmas Stories,</i> <i>Love Stories, Dog Stories, Cat Stories, Horse Stories</i>, <i>New York Stories</i>, <i>Bedtime Stories, Stories of Art and Artists, Stories of Fatherhood</i>, <i>Stories of Motherhood,Stories of the Sea</i>,and <i>Stories from the Kitchen, </i>and ofthe Everyman's Library Pocket Poet <i>Lullabies and Poems for Children.</i>
zlib_text: SOUTHTOWN
  RICK RIORDAN
  BANTAM BOOKS
  New York Toronto London Sydney Auckland
  
  TABLE OF CONTENTS
  Title Page
  Dedication
  Acknowledgments
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Chapter 11
  Chapter 12
  Chapter 13
  Chapter 14
  Chapter 15
  Chapter 16
  Chapter 17
  Chapter 18
  Chapter 19
  Chapter 20
  Chapter 21
  Chapter 22
  
  Chapter 23
  Chapter 24
  Chapter 25
  Chapter 26
  Chapter 27
  About the Author
  Also by Rick Riordan
  Copyright
  
  To John and Mona—
  for twenty years of kindness
  and for raising a great daughter
  
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  Thanks to Officer Colleen Baylor, Omaha Police Department; Alan Tillman, master gunsmith; John
  Klahn, M.D.; Gina Maccoby and Kate Miciak for their help; and most of all Becky, Haley and Patrick for
  their continuing love and support.
  
  1
  Fourth of July morning, Will Stirman woke up with blood on his hands.
  He’d been dreaming about the men who killed his wife. He’d been strangling them, one with each hand.
  His fingernails had cut h