Border City Blues 3-Book Bundle

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Michael Januska. Border City Blues 3-Book Bundle

Dedication

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

FALSE STARTS

— Chapter 1 —

— Chapter 2 —

— Chapter 3 —

— Chapter 4 —

— Chapter 5 —

— Chapter 6 —

— Chapter 7 —

FIRST GEAR

— Chapter 8 —

— Chapter 9 —

— Chapter 10 —

— Chapter 11 —

— Chapter 12 —

SECOND GEAR

— Chapter 13 —

— Chapter 14 —

— Chapter 15 —

— Chapter 16 —

— Chapter 17 —

— Chapter 18 —

— Chapter 19 —

— Chapter 20 —

— Chapter 21 —

— Chapter 22 —

— Chapter 23 —

— Chapter 24 —

— Chapter 25 —

— Chapter 26 —

— Chapter 27 —

— Chapter 28 —

— Chapter 29 —

— Chapter 30 —

— Chapter 31 —

— Chapter 32 —

THIRD GEAR

— Chapter 33 —

— Chapter 34 —

— Chapter 35 —

— Chapter 36 —

POSTSCRIPT

Copyright

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Cover

Dedication

Epigraph

Table of Contents

— Chapter 1 —

— Chapter 2 —

— Chapter 3 —

— Chapter 4 —

— Chapter 5 —

— Chapter 6 —

— Chapter 7 —

— Chapter 8 —

— Chapter 9 —

— Chapter 10 —

— Chapter 11 —

— Chapter 12 —

— Chapter 13 —

— Chapter 14 —

— Chapter 15 —

— Chapter 16 —

— Chapter 17 —

— Chapter 18 —

— Chapter 19 —

— Chapter 20 —

— Chapter 21 —

— Chapter 22 —

— Chapter 23 —

— Chapter 24 —

— Chapter 25 —

— Chapter 26 —

— Chapter 27 —

— Chapter 28 —

— Chapter 29 —

— Chapter 30 —

— Chapter 31 —

— Chapter 32 —

— Chapter 33 —

— Chapter 34 —

— Chapter 35 —

— Chapter 36 —

— Chapter 37 —

— Chapter 38 —

— Chapter 39 —

— Chapter 40 —

— Chapter 41 —

Acknowledgements

Also by Michael Januska

Copyright

Contents

— Chapter 1 — IN THE SOUP

— Chapter 2 — DESCENT

— Chapter 3 — ALLEY CATS

— Chapter 4 — THE PURGE

— Chapter 5 — ENGLISH LESSONS

— Chapter 6 — ON BENDED KNEE, NO LESS

— Chapter 7 — GRACE HOSPITAL WRECKING AND SALVAGE

— Chapter 8 — LEW TO THE RESCUE

— Chapter 9 — CANARDS SAUVAGES

— Chapter 10 — I HAD AN OCCASION TO VISIT

— Chapter 11 — HOUSE CALLS

— Chapter 12 — THICK WITH PEOPLE

— Chapter 13 — IT’S A DATE

— Chapter 14 — KICKING THE GONG AROUND

— Chapter 15 — THE BLACK CANDLE

— Chapter 16 — THE SNAKE ISLAND GANG

— Chapter 17 — THE WEDDING PLANNER(S)

— Chapter 18 — YOUR RIDE JUST LEFT

— Chapter 19 — ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE

— Chapter 20 — SUNKEN TREASURE

— Chapter 21 — NO SUBSTITUTIONS PLEASE

— Chapter 22 — CROSSWORDS

— Chapter 23 — DRIVING LESSONS

— Chapter 24 — OCCIDENTAL

— Chapter 25 — NEAR-DRESSED REHEARSAL

— Chapter 26 — THE INFORMER

— Chapter 27 — IN CASE OF EMERGENCY

— Chapter 28 — BE OUT OF TOWN BEFORE SUNDOWN

— Chapter 29 — THE SPIDER AND THE FLY

— Chapter 30 — FINAL AUDITIONS

— Chapter 31 — SALT MAN

— Chapter 32 — SPATS AND QUARRELS

— Chapter 33 — REFORMATORY BLUES

— Chapter 34 — UNDERCOVER

— Chapter 35 — HEAVEN HELP ME

— Chapter 36 — AMONG THE BULRUSHES

— Chapter 37 — AUTOPSY

— Chapter 38 — HOW LONG YOU BEEN REHEARSING THAT LINE?

— Chapter 39 — TELL ME IT’S ALL JUST TALK

— Chapter 40 — DID HE HAVE ENEMIES?

— Chapter 41 — THROUGH THE MOTIONS

— Chapter 42 — THE WRONG MAN

— Chapter 43 — RETREAT

— Chapter 44 — PROSPECT AVENUE

— Chapter 45 — TONG

— Chapter 46 — WILT THOU TAKE THIS WOMAN?

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Border City Blues

DRIVE

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Belle River was centrally located at the top of Essex County — a rectangular peninsula framed by Lake St. Clair to the north, the Detroit River to the north and west, and Lake Erie to the south. On a map it resembled a fist delivering an uppercut to Michigan’s jaw. Where Lake St. Clair flows into the Detroit River, strip farms give way to a string of municipalities known as the Border Cities: Riverside, Ford City, and Walkerville, where the river narrows until it’s a mile wide at Windsor and you’d swear you can hear the factory whistles in Detroit. Next is Sandwich, and at the point where the river runs due south is Ojibway, a tiny farming community. Heading out of the Border Cities and then east along Erie’s north shore, you eventually hit Kingsville. If you travelled north as the crow flies, from there you’d wind up back in Belle River. Billy saw Ojibway and Belle River as strategic locations, providing easy access to waterways, Windsor and Detroit, and the interior of Essex County.

“You know, Belle River just might work,” he said to his father one day out of the blue. They were chopping wood in the yard. It was early December and their shoulders and arms were powdered with the season’s first snowfall. “We could set up a route along the back roads of the county. If we take Maidstone Crossing, we might even be able to pick up some extra business along the way.”

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