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The Bad Weather Friend

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Added: 05-Feb-2024
Last Updated: 15-May-2024

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There's nothing quite so invigorating, so freeing, as piloting a gasoline-powered vehicle along an open road.  Years from now, when all the vehicles are electric, when tens of millions of acres of Earth’s surface have been destroyed by open-pit mining for the enormous quantities of lithium and cobalt and nickel and copper required for EVs, when thousands of new landfills have been crammed full of batteries that can't be recycled and are leaking horrifying toxins into the water table, when thousands of square miles of windmills have made extinct hundreds of species of birds with disastrous environmental effects, I will still - always, always - remember this special and exhilarating night...

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 01-Feb-2024
Brilliance Audio
Book on CD
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Date Issued:
01-Feb-2024
Format:
Book on CD
Cover Price:
$38.99
Length:
8 hrs 42 min (374 pages)
Catalog ID:
10hkgc
"Read":
Once
Reading(s):
1)   10 May 2024 - 15 May 2024
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Internal ID:
33461
Publisher:
ISBN:
1-491-59676-7
ISBN-13:
978-1-491-59676-0
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Ray Chase  - Narration
Damon Freeman - Cover Design
IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD FOR EVERYONE, JUST FOR BENNY.


Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair.  He's not paranoid.  Someone is out to get him.  He just doesn't know who or why.  Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of: a giant crate and a video message.  All will be well in time.

How strange - though it's a blessing, his uncle promises.  Stranger yet is what's inside the crate.  He's a seven-foot-tall self-described "bad weather friend" named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world.  Spike will take care of it.  He'll find Benny's enemies.  He'll deal with them.  This might be satisfying if Spike wasn't such a menacing presence with terrifying techniques of intimidation.

In the company of Spike and a fascinated young waitress-cum-PI-in-training named Harper, Benny plunges into a perilous high-speed adventure, the likes of which never would have crossed the mind of a decent guy like him.

Performed by Ray Chase
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Copyright © 2024 by The Koontz Living Trust ℗ 2023 Brilliance Publishing, Inc.
7 CDs
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01-Feb-2024
Brilliance Audio
Book on CD

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Author(s)

 Dean R Koontz
Birth: 09 Jul 1945 Everett, Pennsylvania, USA
Notes:
From the back of Odd is on Our Side:

Dean Kootz is the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers.  He lives with his wife, Gerda, in Southern California.

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