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Golden Palms

John Brady

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Description:Golden Palms tells the story of Ted Burek, a newly appointed political aide who is looking for redemption in the halls of power. His search won’t be easy. Ted stumbles on the trail of out-of-town hard boys who have come to LA to make trouble for his boss. To stop them, he must journey through a world of slick real estate developers, bloviating pols, over-confident tech bros and radical bicyclists. Along the way, Ted will discover just how high the price of justice can be. This isn’t your usual noir. It’s funny in places. It’s about politics. The hero, Ted Burek, isn’t some jaded private dick. He’s not a bitter police detective haunted by ghosts of the past. In fact, Ted’s not a detective at all. He’s a disgraced college teacher who drinks too much, gets angry too easily and tries too often to surf away his problems. But he’s been given a chance to turn his fortunes around. Owed a favor by a friend, Ted gets a job as an aide to LA’s charismatic and popular Mayor, and he’s determined to make the most of this chance to climb the political ladder. It turns out to be a treacherous ascent. He has to deal with cranky constituents who heat up his phone with their daily and, more often than not, crazy complaints. He has to figure out how to navigate the political currents swirling around Golden Palms, a run-down apartment complex with a wrecking ball in its future and a pack of riled-up residents who want Ted and the Mayor to save their homes and to do it double quick. And then, because this is a story composed in a noirish key, there are the murders. By a gang assassin. Who everyone, including the LAPD, thought was dead. But he’s back on the streets and killing again. “Get your ear to the ground, find out what’s going on and protect the Mayor,” Ted is commanded by City Hall. It is a mission that pits Ted against bureaucrats schooled in the dark arts of recalcitrance and obfuscation. It propels him into the arms of Lennie. She’s a strident, but beguiling activist with an agenda of her own who wants nothing more than to enlist Ted in the good fight to save Golden Palms. And it puts him square in the sights of some thugs who have come down to the Smog with malice in their hearts. As Ted gets closer to the truth and further in over his head, he wrestles with whether he should follow Lennie and do the right thing or choose to follow the political winds and take the easy way out.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Golden Palms. To get started finding Golden Palms, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Golden Palms tells the story of Ted Burek, a newly appointed political aide who is looking for redemption in the halls of power. His search won’t be easy. Ted stumbles on the trail of out-of-town hard boys who have come to LA to make trouble for his boss. To stop them, he must journey through a world of slick real estate developers, bloviating pols, over-confident tech bros and radical bicyclists. Along the way, Ted will discover just how high the price of justice can be. This isn’t your usual noir. It’s funny in places. It’s about politics. The hero, Ted Burek, isn’t some jaded private dick. He’s not a bitter police detective haunted by ghosts of the past. In fact, Ted’s not a detective at all. He’s a disgraced college teacher who drinks too much, gets angry too easily and tries too often to surf away his problems. But he’s been given a chance to turn his fortunes around. Owed a favor by a friend, Ted gets a job as an aide to LA’s charismatic and popular Mayor, and he’s determined to make the most of this chance to climb the political ladder. It turns out to be a treacherous ascent. He has to deal with cranky constituents who heat up his phone with their daily and, more often than not, crazy complaints. He has to figure out how to navigate the political currents swirling around Golden Palms, a run-down apartment complex with a wrecking ball in its future and a pack of riled-up residents who want Ted and the Mayor to save their homes and to do it double quick. And then, because this is a story composed in a noirish key, there are the murders. By a gang assassin. Who everyone, including the LAPD, thought was dead. But he’s back on the streets and killing again. “Get your ear to the ground, find out what’s going on and protect the Mayor,” Ted is commanded by City Hall. It is a mission that pits Ted against bureaucrats schooled in the dark arts of recalcitrance and obfuscation. It propels him into the arms of Lennie. She’s a strident, but beguiling activist with an agenda of her own who wants nothing more than to enlist Ted in the good fight to save Golden Palms. And it puts him square in the sights of some thugs who have come down to the Smog with malice in their hearts. As Ted gets closer to the truth and further in over his head, he wrestles with whether he should follow Lennie and do the right thing or choose to follow the political winds and take the easy way out.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Golden Palms. To get started finding Golden Palms, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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