Dan Icor Is a good samaritan who embarks on a cross-country road trip to formulate a plan for his future after he loses his job. When he detours from the superhighway to a rural country road, Dan has no idea he is about to be led in a direction he never could have imagined. After Dan pulls into a gas station in the middle of nowhere, he witnesses an unspeakable crime and commits a selfless act that leaves him critically injured. As he heals, he realizes he has acquired special abilities and has been pitted against ruthless adversaries intent on terrorizing a small town. While Dan courageously takes on corruption and incompetence, an emerging leader threatens the American dream. As DanOs journey grows in scope, he must prepare to take on the other merciless opponents waiting for the right time to pounce. In this compelling novel, a good samaritan is thrust into a violent confrontation that sets him on a new path where he must battle dangerous enemies as he discovers newly acquired secret abilities."
From the celebrated author of The Spanish Bow and Behave, The Detour is a bittersweet novel about artistic obsession, misplaced idealism, diversions, and second chances, set along the beautiful back-roads of northern Italy.
She's on a tight deadline for her next book, and she has no intention of socializing with the other industry people at the conference. And then she hits the detour.
When a young man out walking with his dog injures himself and stumbles upon the remote farm rented by the mysterious Emilie, does he know what he is getting himself into? And what will happen when her husband and the policeman arrive?
The Long Detour is an intellectually engaging overview of the history of socialism in the United States and of the continuing relevance of socialist principles today.
Many times we fear the unexpected detour. Where will it take us? Where does it lead? We resist. We question. We fight the system. We would rather stay with the ordinary status quo and travel the safe, easy path knowing the road in front ...
Preston , for which Leylanders like myself affected a deep contempt - we pretended it was a recent growth , and nothing like as venerable as Leyland and its Hundred - was an untidy manu- facturing town , with the central part of which I ...
Dr. Tony Evans walks readers through what it is like to recognize God's will and his plan for your life.
6 On another occasion he lamented the 'ferruginous temper' of the age, derisively observing that railways were simply a means whereby 'every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half an hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton'.7 ...
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Thirty years after one of the most shocking and scandalous Hollywood tragedies ever--the 1958 slaying of screen goddess Lana Turner's mobster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato--Cheryl Crane, Turner's daughter, tells the story...