Stumbling Stone.Stumbling Stone Suzanne Thomas Arbor Books 19 Spear Road, Suite 202, Ramsey, NJ 07446 105 Shawnee 1 shô`nē', shô'nē`; 2 shô'nē`). 1 City (1990 pop. 37,993), Johnson co., NE Kans., a residential suburb of Kansas City; founded 1857, inc. 1922. Consumer goods, lumber, honey, concrete, terra cotta, metal products, and machinery are produced, and farm and dairy products are shipped. The city was the original site of the Shawnee Indian Methodist Mission (1830). A re-creation of an old Shawnee town is in Bluejacket Park. Cove, Savannah, TN 3872 (author) 0977187055 $15.95 www.arborbooks.com When psychologist Jackie Hitchcock returns to her sleep small southern hometown alongside the Tennessee River to investigate the death of both of her parents, she finds herself quickly involved in the underworld of drug gangs and their powerful allies and accomplices. It's the drug methamphetamine that has swept through the community creating addicts and a drug culture the produce poverty, mental illness, physical health problems, deaths by overdose, and all the corruption of organized crime organized crime, criminal activities organized and coordinated on a national scale, often with international connections. The American tradition of daring desperadoes like Jesse James and John Dillinger, has been superseded by the corporate criminal organization. Firmly rooted in the social structure, it is protected by corrupt politicians and law enforcement officers, and legal advice; it profits from such activities as gambling, prostitution, and the illicit. Although a work of highly recommended thriller fiction, Stumbling Stone clearly and accurately lays out the growing problems associated with meth addiction, meth labs, associated criminal enterprise, and the difficult struggle of decent citizens and law enforcement to keep their communities free from this 21st century scourge. |
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