1001: Corruption & Treachery in a Small Town
- Publisher
- Darry Marengere
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2021
- Category
- Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780991843398
- Publish Date
- Oct 2021
- List Price
- $32.99
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Description
A sleepy small town is about to be rocked to its roots.
Giovanni DeVito was discouraged. He browsed the internet late one night, vainly searching for something — anything — that could help him in his despondent situation.
Giovanni had relocated to a small town and had purchased a newly-built home a year earlier. A series of interesting experiences followed.
Giovanni discovered a national not-for-profit advocacy and support organization. Desperate for help, he sent it a distraught e-mail message.
Giovanni’s phone rang at precisely 9 a.m. the next morning.
“May I talk to Giovanni DeVito, please?” a woman’s firm voice thundered.
“Speaking,” replied Giovanni sheepishly.
“Mr. DeVito, my name is Aurora Perez and I’m the president of Canadian Home Quality Alliance.”
Aurora Perez would play an important role in resolving Giovanni’s problems. Together with his best friend Barry Tremblay, Giovanni would uncover a web of corruption that would shatter the small town to which he had relocated. Giovanni didn’t take things lying down.
This thriller is packed with twists and turns that escalate to a bombshell climax. With more and more new homes being built and Canadians relocating to small towns for remote work, 1001: Corruption & Treachery in a Small Town is an enlightening good read.
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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.
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 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.