The Descent of Man
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The Descent of Man by Kevin Desinger
Publisher: Unbridled Books
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1-60953-043-8
ISBN-13: 978-1-60953-043-3
Publication Date: May 2011
List Price: $24.95
Synopsis (from the publisher): One night Jim, a quiet wine steward, wakes to find two men trying to steal his car. Against the petitions of his wife, he goes outside to get the plate number of the thieves truck. Instead, something comes over him and he drives away in their truck until he recovers his wits and realizes what he's done. When Jim learns that the two would-be thieves are brothers with a history of violence, he soon finds himself over his head in a mire of sinister events and must risk everything to regain what he can of his life before that night.