Some Choose Darkness. Charlie Donlea

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PART II - THE RECONSTRUCTION

      CHICAGO - November 1981 CHAPTER 21 - Chicago, October 28, 2019 CHICAGO - November 1981 CHAPTER 22 - Chicago, October 29, 2019 CHICAGO - November 1981 CHAPTER 23 - Chicago, October 29, 2019 CHICAGO - November 1981 CHAPTER 24 - Chicago, October 30, 2019 CHICAGO - November 1981 CHAPTER 25 - Chicago, October 30, 2019 CHICAGO - November 1981

       PART III - THE FARMHOUSE

      CHICAGO - May 1982 CHAPTER 26 - Chicago, October 30, 2019 CHICAGO - May 1982 CHAPTER 27 - Chicago, November 1, 2019 CHICAGO - May 1982 CHAPTER 28 - Chicago, November 1, 2019 CHICAGO - May 1982 CHAPTER 29 - Chicago, November 1, 2019 CHICAGO - May 1982

       PART IV - THE CHOICE

      CHAPTER 30 - Chicago, November 2, 2019 CHAPTER 31 - Chicago, November 3, 2019 CHAPTER 32 - Starved Rock, Illinois, November 3, 2019 CHAPTER 33 - Chicago, November 3, 2019 CHAPTER 34 - Chicago, November 3, 2019 CHAPTER 35 - Chicago, November 3, 2019 CHAPTER 36 - Chicago, November 4, 2019 CHAPTER 37 - Chicago, November 4, 2019 CHAPTER 38 - Chicago, November 5, 2019 CHAPTER 39 - Starved Rock, Illinois, November 5, 2019 CHAPTER 40 - Starved Rock, Illinois, November 5, 2019 CHAPTER 41 - Starved Rock, Illinois, November 5, 2019 CHAPTER 42 - Starved Rock, Illinois, November 5, 2019 CHAPTER 43 - Starved Rock, Illinois, November 5, 2019 CHAPTER 44 - Starved Rock, Illinois, November 5, 2019 CHAPTER 45 - Chicago, November 5, 2019 CHAPTER 46 - Chicago, November 5, 2019 CHAPTER 47 - Peoria, Illinois, December 5, 2019

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      Copyright © 2019 Charlie Donlea

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      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      ISBN-13: 978-0-7860-4222-7

      ISBN-10: 0-7860-4222-2

      First Kensington hardcover printing: June 2019

      First Pinnacle premium mass market printing: June 2020

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      Printed in the United States of America

      Electronic edition:

      ISBN-13: 978-0-7860-4224-1 (e-book)

      ISBN-10: 0-7860-4224-7 (e-book)

      For Cecilia A. Donat

       Great-aunt, old lady, friend

      I fear I am writing a requiem for myself.

      —Mozart

      THE RUSH

      Chicago, August 9, 1979

      THE NOOSE TIGHTENED AROUND HIS NECK, AND THE OXYGEN DEPRIVATION spun his head into a splendid mix of euphoria and panic. He allowed the nylon to take the full weight of his body as he eased off the stool. Those who did not understand “The Rush” would consider his pulley system barbaric, and no one but him fully knew its power. The Rush was a sensation more formidable than any narcotic. There was no other vector of life that

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