A Slightly Tainted Hero

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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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Dave Lockwood is an accountant. Heโ€™s also just turned sixty and heโ€™s feeling oldโ€”mainly in body, rather than mind. And then thereโ€™s Irene Blanchard, his office manager. Sheโ€™s 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 โ€˜maturingโ€™ bod. Which is why, one evening as he escorts Irene down to the parking lot below one of Edmontonโ€™s 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, heโ€™s shocked to find that heโ€™s a successful, wounded, nationally known hero. But instant fame has its drawbacks as Daveโ€™s 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 muggerโ€™s 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 โ€˜Slightly Taintedโ€™. Or, as Dave likes to put it: โ€œEvery silver lining has a cloud!โ€

Weight 530 g
Dimensions 6 × 9 × .75 in
Pages

386

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