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Doc Ford is on a collision course with death in this extraordinary new novel from the New York Times bestselling author. Alot is going on in the trailer park known as Little Guadalajara, inhabited principally by illegal laborers. The park manager is the hired gun of a financial... read more
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“Life is the best thing that can happen to any of us. And it's also the very worst thing that can happen to any of us.”
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In any conflict, the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party who cares least about morality.
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I can tolerate stupidity because it is a biological condition. Ignorance and arrogance are choices, though.
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When a man gets into his forties, he has two choices—invite the pain required to maintain his body or surrender himself to the indignity and pain of slow physical decomposition that, in my mind, would be worse than death.
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In a world made orderly by boundaries, an unregulated flow of aliens into any nation makes a mockery of immigration law. Why wait in line, why respect legal mandates, if cheaters are instantly rewarded with a lawful citizen’s benefits?
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‘You lie to your friends and I’ll lie to mine, but let’s not lie to each other.’
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One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying. —JOAN OF ARC, 1412-1431
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Everything that has happened, everything that will happen, it all exists in this single moment, endlessly surfacing and submerging; natural order, perfect law. The word “coincidence” is an invention that defines our own confusion better than it describes a unique occurrence.
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petty demonstrations of anger are, in my opinion, the equivalent of cancerous little cells that eat away at the quality of a person’s life.
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“Do you remember the goodness of God that was in you as a child? He is still there, in your heart. Why do you fight Him so?”
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“Our strength comes from faith. But our faith is sometimes eaten away by little things that God hates. If we lack faith, though there be a million of us, we will be beaten back and die.”
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Series & Lists edit
This is book 18 of 20 in Doc Ford. (standard series)
Preceded by Deep Shadow, and followed by Chasing Midnight (A Doc Ford Novel).
Authors & Contributors edit
- Randy Wayne White (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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