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1001: Corruption & Treachery in a Small Town

by (author) Darry Marengere

Publisher
Darry Marengere
Initial publish date
Oct 2021
Category
Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780991843398
    Publish Date
    Oct 2021
    List Price
    $32.99

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Small towns can be known for being sleepy, quiet and outright boring. Not much usually goes on in small towns except gossip.

The small town of Harbourview, though, has a lot happening beneath its surface. Unknown to a retiree thrilled with buying a trophy new home in Harbourview is a host of hidden horrors that shatters his retirement dreams.

Deceit, greed and conspiracy antagonize and oppose Giovanni DeVito’s anticipated good life. But together with his best friend Barry Tremblay, Giovanni uncovers a web of corruption and forces this peaceful small town to painfully realize that being quaint is no defence against the treachery that increasingly characterizes today’s society.

Based on a lived experience, 1001: Corruption & Treachery in a Small Town pits a rigid sense of right and wrong against long-standing small town ways in a battle for health, happiness and net worth.

With more and more professionals relocating to small towns to work from home, this story forces a reckoning between resilient big city fighters and passive small town folk who won’t rock the boat.

Will Giovanni and Barry overcome the deceit and get the better of the greed? Will they expose the corruption hidden in Harbourview? Will they overcome the treachery instilled in their small town?

Find out in this tale of heartbreaking evil and Giovanni’s and Barry’s tireless efforts to champion good over that evil.

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Excerpt: 1001: Corruption & Treachery in a Small Town (by (author) Darry Marengere)

Time is an enemy. Time doesn’t forget. Time doesn’t forgive.

Time ages us, and although we gain the wisdom of age, time itself does not learn.

Giovanni’s misgivings with Mitchell Logan would increase with time. Time would bear witness to the ugliness of mistrust, conflict and the broken promises of broken deals. Time would bring frustration, disappointment and anger. Time would teach harsh lessons. And time would crown its victory with the harshest lesson of all: Regret.

Time is an enemy, and unfortunately, Giovanni DeVito had nothing but time on his hands. He was retired, he was living in a strange place and Mitchell Logan’s new home building practices — wound up in a web of local deceit and corruption — would leave Giovanni in a treacherous mess.

Time would unravel events that would impact Giovanni’s physical and mental well-being and his economic viability. Time would ostracize him from his neighbours, his family and his representatives from all levels of government.

Time would see Giovanni shunned in the very community that held such hope for him, the community he eagerly chose for his future and the community on which he took a chance.

Time would trap Giovanni in a house of horrors, isolated and in pain. Punished for the simple and innocent act of buying a new home.

Time takes no prisoners but simply sacrifices the innocence and optimism of youth, replacing them with the jadedness of mistreatment, no matter what the age.

Time witnesses casualties but time itself is immune from harm. Hope may spring eternal but time only manifests in eternity itself.

Time is an enemy and time was all that Giovanni DeVito had.

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