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THE TOWN THAT LOOKS LIKE HEAVEN IS ABOUT TO FEEL LIKE HELL It's 2008 and Earlstown has over-leveraged, overbuilt and over-borrowed. Now with the financial meltdown barreling down from Wall Street, it's about to face the music. They're all in it together, or are they? Southern dynasties who've used their money and connections to run the place for generations, newly minted incomers keen to throw their weight around while they enjoy a slice of the good life, all jostling alongside the hustlers, those who've lost their way and the ones who never found it in the first place. With a backdrop of the lush Lowcountry, this is a story about the melting pot of America as it struggles to rediscover its identity in the early years of the 21st Century. Where the American dream turns not just on the greedy and the foolish, but on the honest and hardworking too, ripping lives apart. As the rich get richer and the poor ground into dust, as military might ends in bitter humiliation, the struggle between good and evil is never far from the surface. Praise for Robert Killian-Dawson's work ""Perhaps reading it prior to going to bed is not advisable as one might end up staying up rather later than one intends and arrive at work blurry eyed the next day."" The Establishment Post, Singapore ""A passionate delivery providing the reader with an insight into life in an Indonesian dictatorship riddled with corruption and little respect for human life."" Rachel Montague ""A tantalizing title that pulls us into a feasible tale of duplicity... a highly satisfying read."" Teresa O'Driscoll ""A gripping piece of literature, brimming with psychological insights and contemporary references. Will Mayo be, I wonder, the Balzac of our age?"" Richard Griffiths ""The historical context is accurately rendered... a well told imaginative story that engages the reader."" Philip Yancey

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