INTRODUCTION

It had been raining since nine o’clock.

The road in front of me stretched out, a bleak gray lined with the skeletons of trees that had been shorn of their leaves and were shivering in the early autumn chill. The car held a dusty, dry smell; redolent of half-eaten sandwiches and too many cups of coffee gulped down hastily in the early morning air. The windshield wipers slapped across the glass, and I could almost beat out a rhythm against the steering wheel with their chock! chock! chock! as I squinted through the mist, trying to make out the exit sign.

I’d been up too late the evening before, and I wasn’t looking forward to the sales call I was about to make. My mouth was dry, and I felt a small, persistent headache nagging at the ...

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