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Description:
In the small
Texas town of Coomey, the Torku deliver VCRs. Clothes. Gasoline. Even
Twinkees and Dr. Pepper.It began six years ago, on Bomb Day, when
the aliens put up the Line to block out the rest of the world. On
all the radio bands there is nothing but static, and beyond the glowing
paisley barrier there may be only radioactive waste. Yet in Coomey,
life goes on quietly.
Until Loretta Harper, the pudgy Mary Kay rep and perennial homemaker
of the month, is found dead in the woods. It's the first murder
in six years, and police chief DeWitt Dawson, with a curse, starts
his investigation. Did the Torku kill her? Or was it Foster, the
town banker turned flower child? Janet--yes even Janet, the police
chief's own wife--may be involved.
Both lyrical and humerous, Happy Policeman is a story of everyday
people trapped in an existential test tube. A story of duty and
rebellion. And adultery. While aliens watch--and wait-- to see if
DeWitt will learn the truth about time, responsibility, and universes
that leak.
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