Dave Lockwood is an accountant. Heโs also just turned sixty and heโs feeling oldโmainly in body, rather than mind. And then thereโs Irene Blanchard, his office manager. Sheโs about twenty years younger than Dave, which is about the age his mind seems to think he is, as it valiantly labours to adjust to a โmaturingโ bod. Which is why, one evening as he escorts Irene down to the parking lot below one of Edmontonโs downtown sky scrapers he unwisely confronts a mugger, whom he quickly discovers is armed. Blind panic follows as shots ring out, and Dave becomes an overnight hero; in fact, heโs shocked to find that heโs a successful, wounded, nationally known hero. But instant fame has its drawbacks as Daveโs pasts sins slowly emerge from behind a long closed closet door. Louise, his wife of thirty six years, is not pleased. Neither, it seems, is anyone else as the fallout spreads: his partners at work, the police, the muggerโs family, and even Dave himself. A Slightly Tainted Hero takes an often humorous, sometimes thoughtful look at the bittersweet irony when the good things in life turn out, as they often do, to be โSlightly Taintedโ. Or, as Dave likes to put it: โEvery silver lining has a cloud!โ
A Slightly Tainted Hero
By: Graham Clews$19.95
A panicked, sixty-year-old accountant successfully tackles and armed mugger, only to find past sins emerge as his instant fame goes viral.
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Weight | 530 g |
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Dimensions | 6 × 9 × .75 in |
Pages | 386 |
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