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Bill Butcher is seven feet tall, has seven teeth, and loves the freedom of riding his custom Harley down an endless road - assuming there's beer at the end. He's never started a fight, but he's ended quite a few. He was too aware of being enormous as a child, and when your momma's idea of good parenting is throwing you sardines in a wading pool and making you pretend to be a seal, you never develop what might be called healthy self-esteem. So, when Nellie Florentino enters Bill's life and stays for more than three days, Bill is conflicted and confused. Nellie, on the other hand, knows what she wants and will make sure Bill knows it, too. Men need a little prompting, and sometimes a little percussive maintenance. Nellie will throw in her heart for free. When Bill has the chance to inherit a fortune in the form of a diner chain willed to him by his mother's immigrant lover. Nellie convinces him to take it. All they have to do is travel two thousand miles in three days to reach the courthouse, while fending off mercenaries and goons sent by Norman Wuu, the nephew of the diner's owner and a criminal genius (in his own mind). Oh, and there's a battle scene with scorpions. And one with Amish whoopie pies.

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J.R. Waterbear is the pen name of authors John Pulver and Robert Jablon. Both hail from Southern California and have hiked, kayaked, scuba-dived and surfed their way from Alaska to Mexico which influenced some scenes in Killswitch. Pulver's fiction has appeared in several publications, and he is the host of The Natural Muse, a group that connects authors with the joy and inspiration of writing from nature. Jablon is a former journalist for The Associated Press who recently retired to the south of France. Killswitch deals with issues that have long fascinated the authors: alienation; the tension between morality and survival, and the struggle to achieve self-discovery, especially in a conformist, social media-driven culture.

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