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Gone Fishing, by James H. Schmitz
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Title: Gone Fishing
Author: James H. Schmitz
Illustrator: Krembel
Release Date: September 30, 2009 [EBook #30140]
Language: English
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GONE FISHING
By JAMES H. SCHMITZ
There is no predictable correlation between intelligence and ethics, nor is ruthlessness necessarily an evil thing. And there is nothing like enforced, uninterrupted contemplation to learn to distinguish one from another....
Illustrated by Krembel
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Barney Chard, thirty-seven--financier, entrepreneur, occasional blackmailer, occasional con man, and very competent in all these activities--stood on a rickety wooden lake dock, squinting against the late afternoon sun, and waiting for his current business prospect to give up the pretense of being interested in trying to catch fish.
The prospect, who stood a few yards farther up the dock, rod in one hand, was named Dr.