Roadwork

A Novel of the First Energy Crisis

Mass Market Paperback, 273 Seiten

Sprache: English

Am 2. Juni 1983 von New English Library veröffentlicht.

ISBN:
978-0-450-05566-9
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OCLC-Nummer:
12523693

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An unlikely customer to be buying such very heavy-duty weaponry: .460 Weatherbee rifle and .44 Magnum handgun. Not a man who seemed to know much about guns. Friendly, middle-aged, credit good and manner unassuming.

A man who had worked hard and made something of a success of it. Had married and made a success of that in the quiet way of so many marriages. Had friends, neighbors, an unsmart but decent home. A family man and well liked.

A man who knew he did not deserve what was being done to him: the serried ranks of City Hall, the corporate wheeler-dealers, the officials and politicos, threatening, without concern or understanding, to destroy everything he had achieved, lived for and loved.

A man who had decided to do something quite extraordinary. Something so publicly insane and violent that he would be noticed.

Because in the end it is always death and …

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