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Personal Reasons: A Novel
Personal Reasons: A Novel
Personal Reasons: A Novel
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Matt Conner is sixty-two. He caught the tail end of Vietnam and came home in 72 full of anger and guilt. Whiskey was Matts anodyne, and barroom brawls were his way of dealing with the America he felt had betrayed him. When he wasnt drinking and fighting, he worked on a bridge-building crew in Tacoma. He became tough and mean and filled with anguish.

And then he met Pam, a hippy from Shreveport who worked in a coffee shop he used to sober up in. An angry vet and a hippy chickit shouldnt have worked, but it did. They were married for forty years before she died of a liver disease. Pam had given Matt his life back. Shed become his anodyne, and shed helped to calm the angry spirit inside him. But she was gone now, and Matt, still mourning for her a year later, has a brief affair with Becky, a battered young woman with no one to turn to for help. Their relationship deepens after Matt rescues her from her boyfriend, Eric.

Matt still holds old fashioned beliefs. Becky is thirty-sixyoung enough to be his daughter. He is embarrassed of their relationship and tries to distance himself from it by dating his neighbor who is a three-time widow and closer to his own age. Shes had a crush on Matt for several years and used to hit on him even when Pam was still alive. Her name is Faye, and she shares many of the same old-fashioned values that Matt does.

Beckys problems, however, are not going away that easy. Her boyfriend, Eric, wants revenge. He recruits help from his connections in the drug world, and Matt Conner finds himself pulled deeper and deeper into a situation he wants no part of, and to make matters worse, his outlet, Faye, seems to have an ulterior motive for her attraction to him.

Matt does not want to lose the normal life that Pam had worked so hard to give him, but when Eric and his drug pals make it personal, he resorts to the violence, and the angry spirit of his past to solve the problems of his present.

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PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateDec 19, 2014
ISBN9781496959034
Personal Reasons: A Novel
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David Roy

David Roy is a network support engineer for Orange, one of the main Service Providers in Europe. For the last 10 years he's collaborated on many projects based on IP and MPLS technologies. He is also a focus technical support engineer for Orange. Before that, he was part of a Research and Development team focused on Digital Video Broadcasting and IP over Satellite technologies. He loves troubleshooting complex routing and switching issues and he has spent much time in labs reverse engineering different routing platforms including the Juniper MX series. He wrote the DayOne book: “This Week: An Expert Packet Walkthrough on the MX Series 3D”. David is triple JNCIE SP #703, ENT #305 and SEC #144. When he's not working on routers, he plays drums, listens to rock and drinks microbrews. David can be found on Twitter @door7302.

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