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D. Robb  \nWe bow our heads before Thee, and we laud And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument In working out a pure intent.  \n-William Wordsworth  \nIn friendship false, implacable in hate, Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state.  \n-John Dryden-  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPrologue  \nThe heat was murder. July flexed her sweaty muscles, eyed the goal, and drop-kicked New York into the sweltering steam bath of summer. Some managed to escape, fleeing to their shore homes where they could sip cold drinks and bask in ocean breezes while they did their business via telelink. Some loaded up on supplies and hunkered down inside their air-cooled homes like tribes under siege.  \nBut most just had to live through it.  \nWith humatures into the triple digits, and no end in sight, moods turned surly, deodorants failed, and petty annoyances elbowed even the mildest of souls toward violence.  \nEmergency medical centers were jammed with the wounded soldiers of summer, 2059. Many who, under normal conditions, wouldn't so much as jaywalk saw the inside of police stations and holding tanks, forced to call lawyers to explain why they had attempted to throttle a coworker, or shove a complete stranger under the wheels of a Rapid Cab.  \nUsually, once cooled off, they didn't know why but sat or stood, blank-faced and baffled, like someone coming out of a trance.  \nBut Louie K. Cogburn knew just what he was doing, why he did it, and how he intended to keep right on doing it. He was a small-time illegals dealer who primarily hawked Zoner and Jazz. To increase his profit margin, Louie cut the Zoner with dried grass scored from city parks, and the Jazz with baking powder he bought in warehouse-sized bins. His target clientele were middle-class kids between the ages of ten and twelve in the three school districts closest to his Lower East Side apartment.  \nThis cut down on travel time and expense.  \nHe preferred straight middle-class as the poor generally had their own suppliers within the family ranks, and the rich copped to the grass and  \nbaking powder too quickly. The target age group fit Louie's brand of logic. He liked to say if you hooked 'em young, you had a client for life.  \nSo far this credo hadn't proved out for him as Louie had yet to maintain a business relationship with a client through high school graduation.  \nStill, Louie took his business seriously. Every evening when his potential clients were doing their homework, he did his. He was proud of his bookkeeping, and would certainly have earned more per annum as a number cruncher for any midlevel firm than he did dealing. But he was aman who felt real men worked for themselves.  \nJust lately if there'd been a wash of dissatisfaction, a touch of irritability, a jagged edge of despair after he spent an hour running his business programson his third-hand desktop, he put it off to the heat.  \nAnd the headache. The vicious bastard of a headache no dose of his own products could ease.  \nHe lost three days of work because the pain had become the focus of his world. He holed up in his studio flop, stewing in the heat, blasting his music to cover up the raging storm in his head.  \nSomebody was going to pay for it, that's all he knew. Somebody.  \nGoddamn lazy-assed super hadn't fixed the climate control. He thought this, with growing anger while his beady, reddened eyes scanned numbers. He sat in his underwear, by the single open window of his one-room apartment. No breeze came through it, but the street noise was horrendous. Shouts, horns, squealing tires on pavement.  \nHe turned up the trash rock he played out of his ancient entertainment unit to drown out the noise. To beat at the pain.  \nBlood trickled out of his nose, but he didn't notice.  \nLouie K. rubbed a lukewarm bottle of home-brew over his forehead. He wished he had a blaster. If he had a goddamn blaster he'd lean out the goddamn window and take out a goddam","cbCairLiBDuThXBa","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairLiBDuThXBa","pdf",1467604,389,"English","# Prologue\n# Chapter 1","[{\"question\":\"What major condition sets the tone at the start of the novel?\",\"answer\":\"The opening centers on extreme July heat, which intensifies tempers and contributes to violence across New York City in 2059.\"},{\"question\":\"Who is Louie K. Cogburn, and what drives his actions?\",\"answer\":\"Louie K. Cogburn is a small-time illegals dealer whose violent impulses are fueled by his worsening headache, heat stress, and growing anger.\"},{\"question\":\"What role does Lieutenant Eve Dallas play in the story?\",\"answer\":\"Lieutenant Eve Dallas is introduced as the law enforcement figure on the scene, beginning her work from her desk as tensions build.\"}]","Purity in Death - Nora Roberts - Book 17 | PDF",1789945339,599]