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Jane of the Jungle
By: Jane BaskineBook Publisher: AuthorSolutions
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A WIDOW HITS THE ROAD TO OUTRUN HER BILLS AND AIDED BY A MOBSTER AND A TIGER, FINDS THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME.
At fifty-eight, Jane wins a facelift and a gym membership in a radio contest. With a tight face that matches her tight body, she is looking forward to many lively years to come. Two years later, she is widowed, broke, and ready to trade her old life as a trauma nurse for a converted tour bus and life on the road. Unbeknownst to Jane, she is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime.
Jane soon meets a couple in an RV park who, after learning she is a licensed pilot, approach her with a tempting offer. Three days later, she is headed into Mexico to do a plane pickup worth thirty thousand dollars. But then she meets her escort, a mobster who hates his job, and everything changes.
Together they are cast into a series of incidents that convince Jane that more than one person wants her dead.
In this zany dark comedy of adventure and strange events, the runaway widow and the unfulfilled gangster must battle dangerous criminals and weird predicaments in order to win a second chance at life-which will only happen if magic is real.
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| Title of eBook: Jane of the Jungle | |
| Release Date: 03-30-2011 | |
| Publisher: iUniverse.com |
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| Parent title | Jane of the Jungle |
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| Encrypted (DRM) | Yes |
| SKU | 9781462002948 |
| File size | 3771 |
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Jane of the Jungle
Chapter One
When he pointed the gun at my head, I knew it was over; and I remembered my father telling me so many years ago, "It's a jungle out there. Be careful."Then something lifted.
I could not feel the weight of the bus or the bumps in the road. Some part of me realized that it was happening again; I think I went into a trance.
When I came to, I was driving somewhere all hot and rocky; it had to be either hell or California. Then my head cleared the rest of the way, and I realized that I had made the jump from the Mexican border unnoticed—at night. I was glad of that because a flying bus is something that might attract some attention, and attention was the last thing I wanted just then.
Last night he had chased me across most of New Mexico, all the way to the Mexican border, toying with me and blowing me kisses because we both knew he was going to kill me. He was taking his time, enjoying himself.
Then my mammoth tour bus, the bus I live in, gave up its connections to gravity and to reality and floated up into the air. I adjusted to a new type of controls—aircraft controls—and flew the bus away. Yes, this happened. I know because it had happened before.
All this started about a year ago.
Call me Jane. When I was fifty-eight, I won a radio contest and got a free face-lift to complement a lifetime of gym membership. I looked good, really good, and was counting on a lively few years to come.
Then the day I turned sixty, I chucked my entire life and entered a life of crime and strange events. My excuse was that I had no choice.
This is how it happened: my
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