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    Sour Rain
    Sour Rain
    Sour Rain
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    Sour Rain

    By Thomas J. Aron

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    In the summer of ’67, a body bobbed to the surface of Auke Bay. During the following days, the war bloodied the streets and hills of the city. Men died as far away as Skagway and Haines. Coincidental with the gruesome discovery north of Juneau, a new prosecutor named Brian Thomas arrived on the afternoon flight from Seattle. Coincidental? Many crime investigators do not believe in it.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas J. Aron
    Release dateDec 20, 2009
    ISBN9781452369372
    Sour Rain
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    Thomas J. Aron

    Contrary to the advice of his father, Thomas J. Aron became a lawyer and spent twenty-seven years proving that old Dad was right. One of the major accomplishments of his law career was the collection of experiences that have become the basis of his writing. Sour Rain has its roots in his experience as the Assistant District Attorney in Juneau. He left the law in 1994 to pursue his love of writing.Aron began writing for newspapers at age ten and continued this interest as an avocation until his mid-50s. He was the primary contributor to a 1989 news series about Denver’s controversial Two Forks Dam. It was awarded Best Series by the Colorado Press Association.For nine years, he wrote Headgate, a monthly magazine column about water resources. His environmental reporting was highlighted by a 1995 story about pollution of a naturally pure underground water supply by a municipal sewage plan.The manuscript of his 1996 novel, The Dam, was used by a citizen-activist group to help expose the deterioration of a major Western reservoir. A tribute to a childhood mentor was published in 1997 as The Legend of Ernie The Bear.

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      Sour Rain portrays the exciting early-statehood of Alaska. Though the state still promises adventure for many of us, it must have been wild in its first years. Organized crime did not respect the new state. In fact, it had the advantage because of Alaska's start-up problems. Most people had only limited experience with starting a new state. It's also an untold story because the world at that time was preoccupied with the Viet Nam War. It seemed that few cared about Alaska crime in the 1960s. Those extreme circumstances demanded extreme law enforcement tactics. It was a bare-knuckled fight with only sketchy legal and technical processes for the police. It was uncivilized by our 21st Century standards.The deception from the incestuous corruption of key Alaska officials demanded clever action by the Sour Rain good guys. The political corruption in Juneau that was cleaned out recently by Governor Sarah Palin might have had its roots in that Alaska era of forty years ago. Outsiders in Sour Rain played a huge part in fighting that corruption just as did the political outsiders with the upstart Palin, who defeated the existing political organization. That's an amazing pattern.The most interesting aspect, however, is that Sour Rain was written and published just before Sarah Palin became governor. This novel was a precursor to what really happened in Alaska in the last couple of years. It's a fascinating coincidence and an interesting story.

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