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AFRAID OF THE LIGHT - DOUGLAS KENNEDY KARTONIER...

__________________________ The new novel from the bestselling author of The Pursuit of
Happiness and The Moment Brendan has always lived a careful  constrained life. A salesman who
never liked the work  he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was
what was expected of him. But now  having lost his job after corporate downsizing and on the
cusp of sixty  he finds himself scrambling to somehow stay afloat in the only Los Angeles work
on offer to a man his age - driving for Uber. When one of his rides  a retired professor named
Elise  asks to be dropped off outside an abortion clinic where she now volunteers  Brendan
finds himself literally driving right into the virulent epicentre of one of the major issues of
our time  engulfing his life in the process. A novel of high suspense and considerable moral
complexity  Afraid of the Light is a tough  affecting social thriller that speaks volumes about
the corrosive divisions of our troubled times. __________________________ 'Kennedy is skilled
at zigzag plotting  blending domestic twists with turns created by global affairs' OBSERVER

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