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    Call Down the Thunder: A Crime Novel
    Call Down the Thunder: A Crime Novel
    Call Down the Thunder: A Crime Novel
    Audiobook8 hours

    Call Down the Thunder: A Crime Novel

    Written by Dietrich Kalteis

    Narrated by T. Ryder Smith

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    Desperate times call for desperate measures in Kalteis's lightning-fast crime caper story Sonny and Clara Myers struggle on their Kansas farm in the late 1930s, a time the Lord gave up on: their land's gone dry, barren, and worthless; the bankers are greedy and hungry, trying to squeeze them and other farmers out of their homes; and, on top of that, their marriage is in trouble. The couple can struggle and wither along with the land or surrender to the bankers and hightail it to California like most of the others. Clara is all for leaving, but Sonny refuses to abandon the family farm. In a fit of temper, she takes off westward in their old battered truck. Alone on the farm and determined to get back Clara and the good old days, Sonny comes up with an idea, a way to keep his land and even prosper while giving the banks a taste of their own misery. He sets the scheme in motion under the cover of the commotion being caused by a rainmaker hired by the mayor to call down the thunder and wash away everyone's troubles.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateDec 24, 2019
    ISBN9781980071716

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      I received this book as on the Early Reviewers. Unfortunately, this book did not grab my attention as I thought it might from its title. Although I tried several restarts of reading this e-book, I was unsuccessful in getting through it. Perhaps another reader will be able to provide a more positive review.