ASIN: B00JM1HBPU
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 150
In this collection of fourteen stories, Life generously punishes the unsuspecting, the self-deceiver, the dreamer, and even the dead. Lethal consequences from innocuous if not innocent actions. Our destructive instincts are never deep enough inside or far behind.A customer doesn’t show up at a restaurant after years of regularity, it causes the demise of its business and the death of the owner. A broken lawnmower prompts a father to thoughts of wiping out his family. A doctoral candidate wants to know how his mentor died – suicide or natural causes – and finds answers with which might lead to his own death. For an explorer in south Africa, the ever present roar of Victoria Falls leads to madness and murder. Meanwhile, Cortes enters the Aztec kingdom and subverts Moctezuma’s authority without really trying. An innocuous ten-day European tour becomes the background for the death of ...
