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David Hadley was born in 1959. He is married with three children and lives in the Black Country, UK.

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	Twisting the Night Away 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The New Republic

by Lionel Shriver (Goodreads Author)

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Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare

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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

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“Road to hell paved in unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.”
― Susan Sontag

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“These fragments I have shored against my ruins”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems

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“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
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