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Over lunch at the Four Seasons Hotel, an acquaintance tells the protagonist about his troubles.
Over lunch at the Four Seasons Hotel, an acquaintance tells the protagonist about his troubles.
Daniel J. Travanti
O.Z. Whitehead
Laurence Foster
Jan Widger
Frank McNamara
Tim McDonnell
Thomas MacAnna
Daniel Reardon
Bill Golding
Over lunch at the Four Seasons Hotel, an acquaintance tells the protagonist about his troubles.
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Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn how to use the internet – he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could be his chance at redemption.
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Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds himself torn between the straight-and-narrow and a road filled with fast money and violence.
Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.