Corruption in Low Places

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iUniverse, Feb 17, 2010 - Fiction - 220 pages
The old Western town of Greenwood is the last place to expect trouble. Corruption is the sort of mess only found in the national government or in big cities. In a corner of the world where everyone knows everyone else, families live and do business in peace. But when one honest, successful entrepreneur tries to expand his endeavors, he collides head-on with a malignant political machine designed for its own profit, draining wealth from the innocent, unsuspecting city like a leech. It has his fellow businessmen trapped, paying through the nose just to keep the corrupt officials appeased, while their community crumbles under a crooked police force. The rest of his friends are running scared, but his stubborn sense of justice will not let him back down. Time will tell if that stubbornness will save the city, or ruin him and his family.

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About the author (2010)

John Walter Black was born in December 1933. He grew up in “Big Wonderful Wyoming,” and joined his father in his construction business. The subdivisions they developed provided housing for new families in several Wyoming towns. He married Phoebe Jane Mountain, and together they raised eight children. John passed away in January 2009, at the age of seventy-five. He wrote this story in the hopes of creating literature that is both entertaining and uplifting; the kind of story by which elders pass wisdom to the next generation.

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