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    The Street Cleaner
    The Street Cleaner
    The Street Cleaner
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    The Street Cleaner

    By A.W. Doc

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    Concerned about a crime wave that threatens to erode the progress of his thriving community, new Governor Jelani Russell developed the Violent Illicit Criminal Extraction program (VICE).

    He utilizes the program to extract the most dangerous criminals from society, then transports them to a remote island thousands of miles away from civilization.

    What became immediately apparent was that the criminals - unwanted in society, were immensely unwelcomed by the inhabitants of the island, and in a twist of fate, the “hunters” of the community became the “prey” of the island.

    The program that was designed to “Clean the Streets”, and garner approval and support for the new governor, has snowballed into a dangerous situation that threatens to destroy everything Governor Russell has worked his entire life for, including his family.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateMar 18, 2022
    ISBN9781669812746
    The Street Cleaner
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    A.W. Doc

    A.W. DOC is a native of Akron, Ohio. A graduate of Walsh University with a B.A. in business management, he is a dynamic fiction writer and storyteller. A husband and father of three, he takes his readers on an amazing journey from the city streets of Kinshasa, Pennsylvania, to the treacherous jungles of the Sentineze Island. His story characters are beyond interesting. They are compelling, fascinating, captivating, but most of all, resilient. The Street Cleaner is a book that explores remedies to eradicate dangerous elements in our community that imprison us, and the consequences of impulsive action.

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      The Street Cleaner - A.W. Doc

      Copyright © 2022 by A.W. DOC.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted

      in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying,

      recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system,

      without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the

      product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance

      to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.

      Rev. date: 02/17/2022

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      CONTENTS

      Dedication

      Preface

      Chapter 1: Seeds

      Chapter 2: Germination

      Chapter 3: Transformations

      Chapter 4: Alignments

      Chapter 5: Eradication

      Chapter 6: Foreshadow

      Chapter 7: Fertile Grounds

      Chapter 8: Uncloaking

      Chapter 9: Procurement

      Chapter 10: Transitions

      Chapter 11: The Reckoning

      Chapter 12: Deployment

      Chapter 13: Extrication

      Chapter 14: Attestation

      Chapter 15: Cessation

      DEDICATION

      This book is dedicated to my cousin Roland Earl

      Peters, who was more like my other brother.

      Your humor and honesty were 2nd only to your

      commitment and faithfulness to family.

      Gone too soon…

      PREFACE

      As a parent, we would all like to live and raise our family in an environment that is safe, peaceful, and tranquil. But we understand there are pockets of criminal activity in nearly every community in our country.

      While that is expected and generally tolerated, where we draw the line is when our personal safety and freedoms are threatened to a point of feeling imprisoned in our homes because of dangerous elements that lurk among us.

      Jelani Russell was impacted by the worst of these elements as a child when his younger brother Jeremiah was brutally murdered at the young age of six.

      So impacted was Jelani Russell that he devoted everything in his life to changing the consequences of violent offenders. First as a DA for the city of Kinshasa, Pennsylvania, and eventually as governor of the entire state. He developed a radical extraction program to rid society of its most fervent criminal elements.

      While the unsanctioned program was initially successful and very effective, there were unforeseen circumstances that developed, and threatened everything he valued in life.

      Now he has a limited amount of time to restore order before he is completely exposed and could possibly lose everything, including his family and his freedom.

      CHAPTER 1

      Seeds

      The mass of people at the Russell home seemed unending.

      Friends, neighbors, co-workers, and relatives from all over converged in the quaint two-bedroom ranch to pay their respect.

      Huddled in a corner and all alone, eight-year-old Jelani sits grasping a picture of his younger brother Jeremiah, whose remains were found a week ago to the day.

      Jelani is glad to be home but overwhelmed by all the activity, all the people, all the emotion.

      Among the mourners, the booming voice of his father Jabari could be heard decrying what has become his favorite rant: Inept crime policies, poor state, and government leadership and what he called the takeover of evil in our society.

      Jelani sits motionless, staring at the picture, tears rolling down his cheeks, listening to Aretha singing Bridge Over Troubled Waters and wondering how such awful things could possibly happen.

      The year was 1973.

      The year is 2003.

      Thirty-eight-year-old Jelani is a successful prosecuting attorney in the DA’s office.

      His wife Rhonda is the nursing director at the city’s main hospital. By all indications, their life resembles a fairy tale of stature and success: beautiful home, great neighborhood, great friends, great everything except for the fact they have been unable to conceive a child.

      Each day begins in a familiar fashion. While Rhonda completes her daily morning ritual of cardio, light weight lifting, and yoga, Jelani is glued to the TV in his home office watching the latest developments from Fox News, CNN, and CNBC.

      Rhonda has tried unsuccessfully for years to curtail what she considers triggers to the high-stress level of Jelani.

      Jelly . . . I thought you said you were going to start working out with me in the mornings?

      I am . . . I will. Just want to finish hearing the details on the latest school shooting. Can you believe how common school shootings are now? Like . . . it’s a thing.

      See, that’s my point. Why do you insist on polluting your mind with all that negativity first thing in the morning? You should be working out with me and relaxing with yoga. That would seem to be the best way to prepare you for your day.

      "Bae . . . seeing and understanding what goes on in our world does prepare me for my day. It’s fuckin crazy out there!"

      Rhonda knows he’s right. It is fuckin crazy out there. But still, priority one is to manage her husband’s high-stress lifestyle as best as she can so he doesn’t succumb to the same fate as his father, who died fifteen years ago from a heart attack. A heart attack Jelani believes was brought on after the senseless and unsolved murder of Jeremiah.

      Jelani finishes his third cup of coffee and heads out to the law firm while Rhonda takes a moment to reflect and pray, while the warm beads of water wash away the sweat from her morning workout.

      A confident woman who is strong in her faith, Rhonda has the same knot in stomach feeling before every appointment with Dr. Asha Singh, her OB/GYN for over twenty years.

      She is hopeful and prayerful that today will be the day when Dr. Singh tells her that after all the lifestyle recommendations she has ascribed to: avoiding trans-fat, cutting down on carbs, cutting down the caffeine, avoiding alcohol, eating more antioxidants, adding multivitamins, and exercise, exercise, exercise; that finally she may hear what she has waited to hear for her entire adult life.

      Your endometriosis is under control and you are fit to conceive a child.

      Rhonda understands that though some women are still able to conceive with the underlying condition of her affliction, there are no guarantees. She has made healthy living her mission or rather … her obsession, and does all she can to increase those odds.

      In spite of the successful careers and great life she has together with Jelani, Rhonda has largely felt unfulfilled as a woman and believes motherhood is the missing link to a complete life.

      This is not a conversation she has cared to share with Jelani, just some of the thoughts she ponders often.

      Lord, what must I do to prove my faith and my devotion? Just ask of me and it shall be done . . . in Jesus’s name Amen.

      After carefully applying her makeup and wiping away her tears, Rhonda nervously heads out the door to her appointment with Dr. Singh.

      Jelani’s drive to the office was met with the usual morning traffic snags. But on this day, he was less annoyed. That’s because he was in deep thought about the prospect of becoming a father.

      Jelani has nothing against fatherhood and has often thought he would be an awesome dad. But the more he thought about bringing a child into this world the more he realized that this world has run amuck with the evil in our society as his father would say.

      School shootings, mass shootings, police shootings, car jackings, child molestations, and drugs, drugs, drugs!

      It doesn’t really matter where you live. It seems people in every community have found it necessary to purchase

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