Suffer the Children

by Robert Earle

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Pub Date Mar 11 2015 | Archive Date Nov 17 2015

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General Fiction (Adult) | Mystery & Thrillers

Description

Reigniting her notorious affair with disgraced General Budge Kleeforth, Pru Malveaux urges that he redeem himself by devising a way to protect school children from lethal assault—as just occurred in a town close to Glenwood Park, Connecticut, where Budge grew up.

Gun lobbyists fear Budge’s ingenious plans to counter their products. With connections as high as the Vice President, they conspire to destroy Pru and Budge’s renewed liaison and buy out their project.

Meanwhile Glenwood Park’s teenagers believe they ought to be able to identify the next assailant through their knowledge of community secrets, not anticipating the effect of their cynicism on someone in their midst.

The arms industry’s plot threatens Pru’s ulterior motive—regaining custody of her own two children. She unintentionally drives Budge toward a young schoolteacher they have been training and discovers that her actions have cost her everything.

When Suffer the Children’s multiple story lines collide, the ensuing tragedy raises the question: If the arms industry can keep the nation’s guns safe, how is America going to keep its children safe as well?