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One Simple Thing
- By: Warren Read
- Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Highbridge Company
- Publish date: January 26, 2021
- Language: English
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3.96(78 ratings)
3.96
(78 ratings)
When his father leaves town, twelve-year-old Rodney Culver’s mother takes up with Otis Dell, a fry cook at the local diner-and a well-known petty thief. While Rodney resists the man’s influence at first, Otis soon draws the boy into his
When his father leaves town, twelve-year-old Rodney Culver’s mother takes up with Otis Dell, a fry cook at the local diner-and a well-known petty thief. While Rodney resists the man’s influence at first, Otis soon draws the boy into his small-time criminal world. After a simple heist goes violently wrong, Rodney becomes an unwitting fugitive, swept away from his mother to the primitive mountain sanctuary of the mysterious Lester Fanning. But with Lester’s skeptical lady friend in the way, and the town sheriff grappling with a curiously placed corpse, what once seemed like an easy plan quickly devolves into a knot of complications.
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