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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Dying for the American Dream

Dying for the American Dream

Brown, David

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN10: 1418406856
ISBN13: 9781418406851
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Jun 6 2006
Pages: 524
Weight: 1.24
Height: 1.17 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
David John, an illegal alien pursuing the American dream in breach of U.S. immigration law is involved in a controversial murder that ends in his own murder. David comes to the United States from Africa to head the New York office of an African based television company. But when the project is crippled by lack of finance, he decides to stay on even after the expiration of his visa. David's lifelong desire for the American dream inspires him to believe that somehow providence would provide a way out of his illegal status. He joins the millions of illegal aliens living in the shadows of the U.S. immigration law. But when David gets his first job in a gas station, he chokes a teenage robber to death by accident. A terrified David, sees his American dream disappearing into the prison walls of death. He becomes a fugitive offender on the run from the law. He seeks refuge with a long lost childhood friend and soccer star, Segun Idemudia, in Newark, New Jersey, hundreds of miles away from the scene of his crime in Arlington, Texas. In Newark, David begins a new life, keeping close to his chest the untold secret of his past. He falls in love and marries Jennifer Tomson, an American woman, who bears him a daughter. But a relentless manhunt by the police leads to his arrest two years after the murder in Texas. An explosive murder trial ends with his acquittal. David is not to savor life in his American oasis of dreams after his freedom. Peeved by the court verdict, Patrick Donover, an Iraqi war hero and elder brother of the murdered teenager decides to take the law into his hands. He unloads the fatal bullets that cut short David's life.

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