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The Winner (1997) (edit title/settings)

by David Baldacci (Author) (edit contributors)

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When LuAnn Tyler is asked to be part of a crooked lottery scheme, she refuses, even though it would mean millions of dollars. But when she is framed for murder, the frightened single mother is forced to participate. Ten years later she has become a wealthy woman determined to live a normal... read more

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  • “... little girls believed what their daddy told them, mostly unconditionally.”
  • “The thing was, she wanted desperately to be someone else, anyone other than who she was.”
  • “... people who are otherwise good, honest, and hardworking cheat everyday of their lives. Some in big ways, most in small ones.”
  • “Parents killed their small children every day, never with good reason. By comparison, children killed their parents only rarely, usually with excellent purpose.”
  • “The federal government depended on the revenue from that lottery to fund a myriad of programs, programs that were now so entrenched politically that it would be impossible to repeal them.”
  • “... if you do A and B, then C will occur. That rarely happens if you inject the inefficiencies of humanity into the process.”
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  • “Inferior minds seek convoluted scenarios; it takes a brilliant one to achieve simplicity.
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  • Jackson studied the shopping mall’s
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  • haggard mothers piloting loaded strollers and the senior citizens group
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  • hermaphrodite, had never ceased to fascinate him. He smiled as he dwelled for a moment on this greatest of all physical duplicities. Jackson had received a first-rate
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  • Anthony Romanello gripped the phone hard. He debated whether to tell Jackson about the two bodies in the trailer
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  • Thomas Donovan sat staring at his computer screen in the frenetic news room of the Washington Tribune.
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  • Shirley Watson was madder than hell. In seeking appropriate revenge for her humiliation at the hands of LuAnn Tyler,
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  • Matt Riggs surveyed the area through a pair of lightweight field binoculars.
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  • George Masters stared down at the file intently. He was sitting in his office at the Hoover Building in Washington. Masters had been with the FBI for over twenty-five years.
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  • farcical. And the government advertisements were highly misleading when it came to detailing precisely what those odds were. But that wasn’t all. Donovan had turned up an astonishing seventy-five percent bankruptcy rate per year for the winners. Nine out of every twelve winners each year subsequently had declared bankruptcy. His angle had to do with financial management companies and other scheming, sophisticated types getting hold of these poor people and basically ripping them off. Charities calling up and hounding them relentlessly. Purveyors of every type of sybaritic
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  • FBI: The Federal Bureau of Investigation

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Jackson studied the shopping mall's long corridor, noting haggard mothers piloting loaded strollers and the senior citizens group walking the mall both for exercise and conversation.

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Book consists of 59 chapters.

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  1. David Baldacci (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Pan MacMillan
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 9780446606325
Page Count: 656

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