When Harland Cain holds a .45 automatic to his head, he savors the moment, imagining the bullet spiraling through the barrel before everything turns black. It's then he hears the screaming of tires followed by the sickening sound of metal against concrete. Outside he finds a boy, bloody and dazed, sitting behind the wheel of a demolished pickup truck. When he explains to the old man that he had intended to kill himself, the lives of the two become inexorably linked with consequences neither could imagine.
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