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As the condemned reached them, each raised his head, snapped to attention, arms at his sides, feet together. The tiny procession reached the end of the pod, and the rest of the way through security and all the way to the death chamber was lined on either side with corrections officers shoulder to shoulder, feet spread, hands clasped behind their backs, heads lowered. With the manвЂ™s first step, the others on the Row began a slow tapping on their cell doors. Our two main characters, however, had never before given a thought to matters of state and could not have imagined how such would so thoroughly determine their fates.ДЄdamsville State Penitentiary | Death Row The governor was as proud of the stateвЂ™s decades-old reputation for budget surpluses as the legislature was of its historic capitol building. The stateвЂ™s leaders and citizens were as proud of their tough-on-crime reputation as they were of the stateвЂ™s highway system, constructed and maintained wholly apart from federal funds and linking to the interstates only at the borders. Only Louisiana rivaled its no-nonsense prisons, only Texas its record on capital punishment. A succession of maverick governors, including one who engineered the stateвЂ™s four-year secession during the Civil War, had served to fashion the commonwealth into a virtual landlocked island unto itself. The unnamed state in which these events occurred had for nearly two centuries flaunted its renegade spirit, thumbing its nose at Washington. And that proved unforgettable to any old enough to remember. Rather, along with many other elements-seemingly unrelated at first blush-the crime serves as mere impetus to what really happened. I hope in the end you agree and that Riven stays with you long after the final page. If a novelist has a lifeвЂ™s work, this is mine. And those mystical, interweaving elements I hope make it all work have been tugging at me for more than a decade. The story idea is perhaps twenty years old. The two main characters have remained in my memory since high school forty years ago. In your hands lies my fourth such labor of love. Oh, I give my all to every one, but special joy and anticipation attend those that genuinely feel like the best ideas. Two-thirds of my published books have been novels, and only three have had that effect on me. Do I find myself telling the story to my wife and other confidants? Is it the type of tale that will draw me back to the keyboard every day? I determine whether a novel idea has merit by how long it stays with me. This is the novel I have always wanted to write. 351 Executive Drive, Carol Stream, IL 60188. Quotes in excess of 500 words, use of the text as part of a compilation, use of text that is greater than 5 percent of the book in which it will be quoted, or other permission requests shall be directed in writing to Tyndale House Publishers, Permissions Dept. The author's name may not be used on the cover of any other book in which a portion of this material is quoted without written permission of Tyndale House Publishers. The author's name shall not be used in the title of a web site or in the advertising of the site.

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