Jack Whalen

Broschiertes Buch

Miles Carnival of Crime

Beschreibung

Miles recovered from the gunshot wounds he suffered in his ill-fated to escape his Miles of Stolen Sales crimes. Recovery for Miles was an escape from a high-security hospital that included Jess, a victim turned girlfriend. The heat on Miles was so great he decided to leave the country and kidnaped a pilot with a plane. His style of a fundraiser for the trip came as a crime spree that nets millions during a Gay Pride Day celebration in Provincetown on Cape Cod. Leaving his life sentence and the lives of broken people behind they decided to settle in South America. A stay in Peru for an ayahuasca experience was abruptly ended by an altercation between Miles and a cartel owner. That escape landed them in Uruguay, where Miles's bar-hopping habits found him a new partner in crime who accepted Miles's idea of a new product. As Miles describes making the ayahuasca vine into a pill that offers women what they are looking for in a "Woman Only" pill, his friend decides to fund the development. As Miles describes the properties and designs the pill's purposes, he is murdered. Jess and his son are kidnapped by the financier's cartel. In a love-driven attempt to free her, a family friend burns down the cartel hacienda forcing him, Jess, and the boy to flee the country. As they make their way to Miles's old hideout in New York State, Jess breaks down telling the group what Miles did to her and others in a past lifetime. Turns out fire and weather have destroyed the hideout buildings, except his old beat-up pickup, where his black book was found. His daughter and first victim aid the FBI in tracking down his victims still alive to offer them heroin addiction detox/rehab recovery. With Miles's relatives in prison, his son inherits a small fortune which will be used to build a center to help the abused and addicted. Its reputation of healing the wounded and assisting people to get clean and sober becomes Miles of Recovery.

Autor

Leaving my hometown for college was a dive from all I'd known into a sea of unfamiliarity. Gone were the sports I loved that kept me healthy, my friends who taught me about life via fun and games, and the experiences only found in a small town. I also left a home that I later discovered was dysfunctional. Although I earned an AA and BS degrees, college life showed me a freedom I didn't manage well. My freedom changed me. I married my college sweetheart the week after graduation, which was a month before the Woodstock music festival and three months before our "love child" was born. Full of ambition, I changed IT jobs every few years, staying on the "fast track - high potential" lists from start-up companies to mega-corporations. We started poor but built an American Dream in a few short years. On the outside, we had it all, on the inside I was dying. Drugs and alcohol finally brought me down after decades of hard-partying. In spring 1982, I returned from a long assignment in Singapore, where I stayed clean and sober. I could be myself and loved it. I moved my family out of suburbia to clean up our lives. While I attended A.A., my wife slid into the world of IV drug use. We helped her fight her demons, but that lifestyle claimed her. She chose life in a drug den several miles from us. We were in pain. My single parenting skills were inadequate, but the extra effort by each of us proved enough to get the kids' college degrees. Much of this story is about recovery from lost love, dreams of a better life, and my struggles to conquer my addictions. The evidence shows sobriety is a way of life - not an event.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Wave Books
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780578818399
• ISBN-10: 0578818396
• Artikelnr.: 61669096