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Barry N. Rainsford

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Average rating: 4.09 · 32 ratings · 21 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Broken Wings 4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All the Dead Men Lie 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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What makes someone a hero. Is it action or intention? Is it a conscious choice or a coming together of circumstance?
Writing my debut novel All The Dead Men Lie it was one of the many questions that kept occupying me in developing the narrative and character arcs of the story. For me, the actual creative writing tends to flow naturally, it’s later in the edit that such questions come into their own Read more of this blog post »

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Dead Ground (Washington Poe, #4)

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