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    Dearborn
    Dearborn
    Dearborn
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    Dearborn

    By Alex Wilson

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    Josh Malley is engaged as a consultant to an international company to review the health of their community relations. In the process, he stumbles upon terrorist cell activity. His resourceful wife, Dana, and his old Marine compatriots team up to unravel the plot and thwart it...almost.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlex Wilson
    Release dateMay 22, 2010
    ISBN9781452378114
    Dearborn
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    Alex Wilson

    At 72, Alex's wife said 'Why not try writing?' Within 4 months he had six novellas on Smashwords and now, a couple of years later, 18. Obviously there was stuff lurking in there waiting to be said. Alex's wife is also his muse and editor, and a good one. They live in St. Petersburg, FL where there is a surprising amount of writerly activity.

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      Dearborn - Alex Wilson

      Dearborn

      a novella by Alex Wilson

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2010 Alex Wilson

      Other works by Alex Wilson are available at www.wilsonwritings.com.

      Dearborn: a novella by Alex Wilson

      ‘Josh, could we have ever foreseen the depth and dimension of this community? Here we are with the other tourists seeing the modest childhood homes of famous Americans; Thomas Edison, Luther Burbank, Henry Ford and the rest. But, it’s like we’re on the ice of a lake with great depth beneath our feet.’

      ‘You can be quite poetic when inspired. Corny, but poetic.’

      ‘Don’t be a dork. You know what I mean. We turned over a rock here, didn’t we?’

      ‘Or, opened a door on someone’s party to which we weren’t invited.’

      ‘We have been here in Dearborn, what, a month? Seems like more.’

      ‘After we check out Edison’s laboratory, let’s go in the Museum and look at the trains.’

      ‘What is it with boys and trains? We have flying machines now bucko.’

      ‘There are some of them in there, too. And gun collections and old cars and bicycles and a blacksmith shop and…’

      ‘OK, sonny. Let’s go in before you wet your diapers.’

      ‘I’ve never understood why women just can’t grasp the beauty of an anvil.’ Sigh.

      Josh and Dana were strolling through Greenfield Village, a wonderful open-air museum in Dearborn, Michigan, seeing the iconic homes and founding workplaces of some of America’s signature inventors. It abutted The Henry Ford Museum/Edison Institute with the indoor array of significant machinery of all sorts. Josh and Dana were relaxing on a complimentary ticket provided as part of their reward for a difficult and dangerous job well done.

      * * * * * * *

      Josh Malley was an award winning investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times until it was acquired in an ill-considered leveraged buyout. The debt was unpayable under the company’s existing structure so drastic downsizing was, sadly, resorted to. Josh was one of the best and the brightest of those thrown overboard. He ‘retired’ to Maine as far as he could get from LA. He vowed to not work in the newspaper game again, despite his successes – two Pulitzers – in the field. And, he hasn’t. But, he did turn his sharp eye for discovery and reporting and his crystal clear written reportage to the service of corporate clients for public relations, crisis management and strategy consulting.

      When Ford Motor Company contacted him with an assignment to review and make suggestions for better community relations between the company and their world headquarters town of Dearborn, Michigan, Josh signed on. He timed his trip to Michigan to coincide with the availability of Dana to accompany him. Dana and Josh never married – having both been married before – but were in a smoothly integrated and committed relationship. They referred to one another as ‘my wife’ and ‘my husband’ to avoid having to explain the subtleties and nuances of their so far successful partnership.

      Dana teaches school. Well, that may be understating it a bit. She is an Associate Professor of History at Bowdoin College, a distinguished small liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine near their home. They like to get away together when they can which means whenever Dana’s school breaks coincide with one of Josh’s out-of-town assignments. This was one of those times. This was also one of those times when Dana could be

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