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Only One Thing Stays the Same
In this noir crime novel reminiscent of the best of James M. Cain and Jim Thompson, Jack R. Nerad chronicles a blue-collar worker’s up-and-down love affairs with two modern Southern California women who continue to surprise, shock and ultimately confound him. Will he survive their love? Will they survive his? Or will an attempt to get away with murder leave the wrong person lying dead?
This suspense-filled novel, told by its ever-optimistic and long-suffering main character, chronicles how an unemployed aeronautics worker named Bill McCurdy slips into an illicit affair with a bright-eyed young woman and begins to think of doing the unthinkable. But despite his desperate attempts to make things work, almost nothing goes as he plans, and his quest for simple love and understanding doesn't turn out to be simple at all. Before the roller-coaster ride stops, he learns quite personally and very finally that only one thing stays the same.
This suspense-filled novel, told by its ever-optimistic and long-suffering main character, chronicles how an unemployed aeronautics worker named Bill McCurdy slips into an illicit affair with a bright-eyed young woman and begins to think of doing the unthinkable. But despite his desperate attempts to make things work, almost nothing goes as he plans, and his quest for simple love and understanding doesn't turn out to be simple at all. Before the roller-coaster ride stops, he learns quite personally and very finally that only one thing stays the same.
254 pages, Paperback
Published March 11, 2025
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