Flyover Country

By Daniel Koehler
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Published: July 30, 2010
Words: 114481 (approximate)
Language: English

Ebook short description

In 1962, three intersecting crimes—a patricide, a bank robbery, and a kidnapping—lead to tragedy, secret-sharing, redemption, and a May/September romance in Flyover Country.

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When Adele Fortenberry turns thirty, her cultured, privileged small-town existence becomes a nightmare. After an unhappy love affair ends, Adele’s life further spirals downward when she shoots and kills her demented father in self-defense after he attacks her with a butcher’s knife. One year after the shooting, she has become a guilt-ridden recluse known in the neighborhood as “The Witch.”

On the other side of the tracks from Adele’s comfortable Park Hill neighborhood, twenty-one year old Willie Bakelekos is busy hatching a romantic plan to free himself from his dreary job as a tow truck driver. To escape “Dogtown” (as his hometown is derisively called), he pulls off an improbable bank robbery with two dim but volatile partners and is $16,500 richer.

Willie soon discovers, however, his new “outlaw” lifestyle is anything but romantic. He retains most of the money himself and buries a counterfeit of the loot to deceive his robbery partners. The burial spot? The curs... (Read more) When Adele Fortenberry turns thirty, her cultured, privileged small-town existence becomes a nightmare. After an unhappy love affair ends, Adele’s life further spirals downward when she shoots and kills her demented father in self-defense after he attacks her with a butcher’s knife. One year after the shooting, she has become a guilt-ridden recluse known in the neighborhood as “The Witch.”

On the other side of the tracks from Adele’s comfortable Park Hill neighborhood, twenty-one year old Willie Bakelekos is busy hatching a romantic plan to free himself from his dreary job as a tow truck driver. To escape “Dogtown” (as his hometown is derisively called), he pulls off an improbable bank robbery with two dim but volatile partners and is $16,500 richer.

Willie soon discovers, however, his new “outlaw” lifestyle is anything but romantic. He retains most of the money himself and buries a counterfeit of the loot to deceive his robbery partners. The burial spot? The cursed ravine where Ike Fortenberry’s body landed after plunging one-hundred feet from his veranda after Adele shot him.

However, when twin boys discover the site of the buried loot, Willie finds his deceit has “unintended consequences,” culminating in the kidnapping of the twins by his unstable partners.

Willie, Adele, and the twins’ father, HABEB ABOUD, join forces to rescue the boys, and in the process, develop a lifelong bond of joint dependence. Willie and Adele’s relationship evolves into a May-September love affair that permits them each to atone for past misdeeds and find a better life outside of gritty Dogtown. Habeb and Willie lay their lives on the line to save the twins from Willie’s robbery accomplices and afterwards share a dark secret they vow never to reveal.

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romance, murder, robbery kidnapping, intergenerational relationships, regional mystery

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