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    Ken's Tale & the Peterson Dilemma: Desperate Prequels
    Ken's Tale & the Peterson Dilemma: Desperate Prequels
    Ken's Tale & the Peterson Dilemma: Desperate Prequels
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    Ken's Tale & the Peterson Dilemma: Desperate Prequels

    By Nicholas Antinozzi

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    Ken Dahlgren watched the economy tumble. He knows the end is near. He and his wife plan for an economic cataclysm and stock their lake home with necessities. What Ken lacks are the guns to protect himself and Patty from the unknown. The search costs him dearly. The second story is about the rich Peterson clan, the moment after they realize they stayed in the city too long. Death is at their door.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNicholas Antinozzi
    Release dateMay 31, 2010
    ISBN9781452341651
    Ken's Tale & the Peterson Dilemma: Desperate Prequels
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    Nicholas Antinozzi

    Nick lives in Minnesota and spends as much time as he can writing. He believes that the literary envelope has been pushed too far and he prides himself on writing things a grandmother, or even a young teenager might stumble across, and read from cover to cover without blushing.

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      Ken's Tale & the Peterson Dilemma - Nicholas Antinozzi

      Ken’s Tale

      &

      The Peterson Dilemma

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      Desperate Prequels

      by

      Nicholas Antinozzi

      PUBLISHED BY:

      Nicholas Antinozzi

      Copyright (c) 2010 by Nicholas Antinozzi

      Edited by Coleta Wright

      Cover Design by Steve Peterson

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      The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead is coincidental and not intended by the author.

      Ken’s Tale

      The odyssey had begun at a gun show in Minneapolis and was about to play out three weeks later in the back of a Saint Paul pawnshop. Ken Dahlgren was sweating. The sixty year old business owner was way out of his league and he knew it. He was tall, trim and handsome for a man of his years. Ken wore his hair in a military cut over ice blue eyes and a square jaw. He had dressed in jeans and a Vikings sweatshirt and the room was too warm. The dusty storage room was long and narrow and smelled of mildew. Two bare bulbs hanging from wires lit the room, forty watt, Ken guessed. He sat in one of the soiled wingback chairs, and waited in this shabby room to close the deal. Or: if things continued to go wrong; as they had been all day, to be murdered.

      This just wasn’t worth the risk and Ken wanted to scream at himself for acting so foolish. He had been told to trust the fat man with the tattoos, which he had done, and found himself at the point of no return. How he had trusted a stranger with five thousand dollars and the keys to his pickup, Ken couldn’t explain. Real smart, Ken thought. I’m sorry, Patty, you married an idiot.

      He checked his watch again for the third time in ten minutes and shook his head. Ken remembered what he was thinking about as he prepared to leave that evening, wondering if he should carry a gun. Practical Ken had won that argument, the Ken who trusted in God and that people were good for their word. He now wished

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