Double Bridges
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"You done stepped in my bedroom twice today boy, you don't have another time." Then the sheriff spat to the ground. Willie raised his shot gun and warned Sheriff Riley whose land he was standing on. "Best be leaving sheriff, he said." "We'll be talking again said sheriff Riley." That's your faggot sheriff Riley. You can't handle him how do we expect you to handle them niggers?
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Life is difficult for the hardworking Jones family. Aunt Grace Jones, her son Willie, and his daughter Talu do their best to survive in the rural, destitute Louisiana town of Double Bridges. But when Augustus Riley is elected sheriff, life becomes more difficult. A sharecropper-turned-lawman, Riley despises the black race, and he vows to make their lives miserable.
Sheriff Riley especially despises Willie, and he stops at nothing to antagonize him. Willie sends for his lifelong friend Benjamin Ford, who travels from Toronto, Canada, to help the Jones family deal with the malicious behavior of the new sheriff. The situation escalates from bad to worse when the sheriff first kills Willie’s prized hounds and then attempts to drown Willie in the local pond. Willie Jones vows revenge and its repercussions threaten to tear this family apart.
The family must also filter some ancient secrets and some newly hatched secrets of incest and lust. Willie is faced the accidental and insanely brutal and senseless death of the woman he is so madly in love with., And she who with her room-mate Belle are local whores that run the town's only Juke joint. A work of historical fiction, Double Bridges narrates the story of one family’s battle with southern injustice that tests their will and grinds away at their everyday existence.
About the Author
Scott Adair graduated from Indiana State University, Terra Haute, Indiana with degrees in criminology and economics. He worked thirty years in the automotive manufacturing industry. Now retired, he and his wife, , live in Indianapolis, Indiana. In addition to writing, Scott coaches youth basketball and travels with his family.