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Название книги: Serena
Автор(ы): Ron Rash
Жанр: Триллер
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Serena-168218.html

© 2008
For my brother, Thomas RashA hand, that with a grasp may grip the worlde.– CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

PART I
One
WHEN PEMBERTON RETURNED TO THE NORTH Carolina mountains after three months in Boston settling his father's estate, among those waiting on the train platform was a young woman pregnant with Pemberton's child. She was accompanied by her father, who carried beneath his shabby frock coat a bowie knife sharpened with great attentiveness earlier that morning so it would plunge as deep as possible into Pemberton's heart.The conductor shouted "Waynesville" as the train shuddered to a halt. Pemberton looked out the window and saw his partners on the platform, both dressed in suits to meet his bride of two days, an unexpected bonus from his time in Boston. Buchanan, ever the dandy, had waxed his mustache and oiled his hair. His polished bluchers gleamed, the white cotton dress shirt fresh-pressed. Wilkie wore a gray fedora, as he often did to protect his bald pate from the sun. A Princeton Phi Beta Kappa key
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