Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile

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Sergeant Maggie Thompson of the Massachusetts State Police is assigned to investigate a dead body, wrapped in blue lab-grade plastic, that is found in a state park near Boston. Soon Maggie discovers that the victim worked at a nearby biotechnology company, which just happens to be where Maggie’s estranged half-brother Benny works. Before long Maggie is undercover as Benny’s assistant. As they investigate the murder together, Benny and Maggie also slowly rediscover each other and their family’s own fifty- year-old mystery surrounding their father’s time in Vietnam during the war and a sister they had never heard of. Another killing and then another drive the fast-paced action in the present as they also grapple with secrets from their shared past. Biotech has changed all our lives. Startin

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