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The Keepers of Truth

 Michael Collins

Published by Phoenix 2001

town in the late seventies. The once bustling town, where "everyone worked in the factories," was dependent on manufacturing cars, sheet metal, mobile homes, washers and dryers, frame doors and steel girders for bridges and skyscrapers. Factories were our cathedrals, pushed up out of the Great Plains," but then the industrial depression came, "production stopped" and the factories were abandoned. Unemployment, poverty, despair and suicides now plague the town.

The life of the protagonist, Bill, a cub reporter for the decaying town‘s only newspaper  -- Daily Truth -- mirrors the hopelessness of the town and the struggle of the newspaper, which has little local news to report to and must compete with the immediacy of television and the presence of a beautiful anchorwoman -- the "town oracle...always on location": Linda Carter doing "Eyewitness News." Bill's mundane job has him bored, "creating postscripts to a dead town" and writing about firemen’s wives organizing a bakeoff. He longs to be able to write long metaphorical essays about the decay of the town and the death of the American dream.

Salvation comes in the form of a murder. The suspect is Ronnie Lawton, a tattooed burger flipper at Denny's. A severed finger belonging to Ronnie’s no-good father is found. The search for the body triggers off a national obsession on television and transfixes the locals. Chasing Ronnie down, piecing together evidence and trying to solve the murder becomes both Bill’s catharsis and nemesis, which he must face to avoid the same fate of his father, whose suicide he has never gotten over.

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