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Within a week of being dumped by his girlfriend for avoiding discussions about the future of their relationship, Marty Marcotte also loses his job and his apartment. Marty leaves town and finds not only a job in northern Ontario but also a possible new romance. Unfortunately his new love interest comes with dangerous baggage, namely a psychopathic stalker who inundates his victim with dirty tricks and intense terror. Is there any way to stop such a monster? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired lawyer from the picturesque small city of Belleville, Ontario, Canada where he ...

Embarrassed to realize that he has become a boring old pest, retired Canadian attorney Donald Dillenbeck decides to discard his cheapskate ways, leave his home town and squander his millions in the USA by indulging in a lavish upscale life. The old boy will soon learn that life-long habits of thrift are tough to break. Don will also discover first-hand that America has become a very dangerous place to travel. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Durward Garbage is a pen name used by Canadian author and retired lawyer Donald W. Desaulniers to publish some of his shorter novels. Always a proponent of quantity ...

In GOLDEN CHAOS, a meteor shower pelts the planet with thousands upon thousands of meteorites which folks soon discover contain pure gold. That causes the price of gold to plummet and financial panic spills over to the entire stock market. For Calvin March, the phenomenon quickly costs him his job as a junior stock broker in White Plains, New York and he is forced to move back into his Dad's basement in his small home town of Oneonta, New York. Calvin reconnects with his former girlfriend Holly and the two lovebirds witness together the ensuing GOLDEN CHAOS which engulfs the USA when the ...

Rotten luck doesn't discriminate between rich and poor. Lucasio "Lucky" Lafontaine is forced to take the train to Toronto in order to appear as a witness at a court hearing. Despite his nickname, the wealthy retired attorney finds himself in the proverbial wrong place at the wrong time. Everything goes downhill from that moment. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Durward Garbage is a pen name of retired Canadian lawyer Donald W. Desaulniers who has written more than 100 novels in his real name or using the pen names "Durward Garbage" or "Lance Majestik."

At the tender age of twenty-five in California, Durward Garbage sold his video game invention "ATTACK TURDS" for $5 million dollars. Just like with young celebrities and gifted athletes, Durward became too rich at too young an age and went into hiding. Durward tried his hand at writing novels for the next six years in Canada but they all bombed. Finally deciding to get a real career, Durward decides to become a CPA in Burlington, Iowa. This is the story of Durward's attempt to carve out a normal life in a rewarding career as well as find a girl who loves him for his character rather than ...

Retired attorney Allen Smith lives in poverty. Despite being in a lucrative profession, he completely missed the gravy train. When he inadvertently becomes the key witness in a New York City criminal syndicate's money laundering scheme, Allen disguises himself and flees for his life, winding up in Los Angeles. If Allen believed that his former life was the pits, wait until he learns what it's like to be a penniless fugitive lawyer panhandling on the mean streets of LA. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Durward Garbage is a pen name of an obscure Canadian author and retired lawyer named Donald W. ...

Retired attorney Paul Peterson is shocked when he learns from the Ottawa police that his ex-spouse has just died and that she had left her Will in the kitchen naming Paul as her Executor. His divorce from Colleen twenty-three years ago had been bitter and he hadn't been in contact with her in any way for more than fifteen years. Reluctantly Paul drives to Ottawa to sort out his ex-wife's estate. Some bitter ex-wives never forgive. Paul will soon discover that Colleen has landed him in a posthumous pile of danger. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Durward Garbage is the anonymous pen name of a retired ...

Kicked out of their trailer by his abusive father at age 15, Parker Sledge has toiled at below minimum wage cash jobs ever since. Now, about to turn 30, Parker decides to leave rural Mississippi in search of the American dream. Parker will soon learn that it's a rough world out there for young white guys with no education or marketable skills. This is Parker's story. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lance Majestik is a pen name of retired Canadian lawyer Donald W. Desaulniers who uses that pen name to publish some of his shorter novels.

Wade Hanover is a thirty-five year old bachelor employed by Revenue Canada as a tax investigator. Wade is rude, lazy and politically incorrect, personality traits which mesh nicely with his job. Unfortunately for the ladies, many of them find Wade irresistible, much to their later regret. This is his story. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Durward Garbage is a pen name of Canadian lawyer Donald W. Desaulniers who has published on Amazon more than 100 novels since he retired in 2009. Please check out the Author Pages on Amazon for "Donald W. Desaulniers" and his two pen names "Durward Garbage" and "Lance ...

Within days of being told that he must vacate his upscale apartment, retired New York City attorney Byron Blake also learns that his Aunt Blanche has died and named Byron as the beneficiary of her home and modest estate in Heber Springs, Arkansas. Byron decides to move to Arkansas temporarily while he sorts out his late aunt's affairs. Byron soon discovers that his aunt has left some strange instructions regarding the disbursement of her money and expects him to give everything away to local folks temporarily down on their luck. Both romance and a deeper understanding of the plight of ...

Realizing that reopening his law practice after his four month disbarment would be futile, disgraced attorney Slymon "Slimy" Robichaud packs it all in and heads off in his car for parts unknown. He finds romance in Reno and a fantastic job offer which includes a luxury apartment back in his home town of Windsor, Ontario. Will this taste of the good life finally bring Slimy the happiness he thinks he deserves, or does Fate have other plans for this perpetually shady lawyer? This is the 5th novel in the six-book Slimy Lawyer Series. Each one is a stand-alone story about an attorney who ...

Scumbag attorney Slymon "Slimy" Robichaud begins this story suddenly out of work and forced to vacate his apartment. A chance meeting at a bar with another lawyer hands Slimy the opportunity to look after that colleague's legal practice and reside free in his townhouse. Slimy should know better than to trust a fellow attorney. As if that situation doesn't turn out bad enough, Slimy gets called to testify as a witness against some members of the terrorist car heist gang which had tried to murder Slimy twice before. Despite all odds being against his survival, the wily old lawyer concocts a ...

Everyone calls Slymon Robichaud by his nickname "Slimy" and for good reason. He's both a lawyer and a complete scoundrel ready to take advantage of any opportunity to shaft a fellow human being. It's possible that Slimy has finally met his match when he sits beside Georgina Cole on a flight to Las Vegas. Old Slimy is in for a wild ride. This is the first novel in the "Slimy Lawyer Series" about Slimy and his always shady antics. In chronological order, the stories in the six-novel series are "SLIMY LAWYER", "SLIMY SUES AMERICA", "SLIMY GETS SHAFTED", "SLIMY GETS DISBARRED", "SLIMY TASTES ...

This novel is the 4th in the six-book Slimy Lawyer Series about Slymon "Slimy" Robichaud, a shyster attorney adept at putting his own interests ahead of those of his unfortunate clients. When Slimy is caught giving under-the-table bribes to real estate agents in order to secure client referrals, his penalty is a four month period of disbarment. Using a phony name in order to avoid humiliation but retain at least a bit of income, Slimy gets a job washing cars at an automobile dealership during the lonely night shift. That's when his new secret life becomes filled with danger and drives poor ...

This is the 3rd novel in the 6-book SLIMY LAWYER SERIES about sleazy attorney Slymon Robichaud who earned his nickname "Slimy" through many years of ripping off his clients and anyone else who stumbled into his path. When a missed flight connection allows Slimy to meet a rich elderly woman in a Denver hotel restaurant, he decides to help himself to a bit of her wealth. Will it be easy pickings? Not everything is always precisely as advertised. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a quirky retired lawyer from Canada who loves to write about the legal profession that everyone loathes. ...