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Rite of Passage was planned around Elmore Leonards formula- one just man, reluctantly engaged, triumphs. Buck Darke suspects a friend of murder and awakens to the probability that two of his relatives are spooks. Murder and espionage complicate his transition to manhood and threaten his chances of completing the process.Author Biography: Over forty years ago George Parrish was awarded an Honorable Mention in an Atlantic Monthly creative writing contest and never recovered. He spent twenty-five years as a writer miscast as an entrepreneur. Until 1990 most of his writing time was consumed by FORTRAN programming, reports, and proposals related to CPU, Inc., the computer sales and data processing business he started in 1968 and sold 25 year later to turn to reading and creative writing full time. George Parrish was born in Muskegon, Michigan, where he still lives. He is an honor graduate of the University of Michigan with degrees in electrical engineering and engineering mathematics. He held positions as technician, research engineer, college instructor, and business executive. He and his wife of 40 plus years have three children and seven grandchildren. Rite of Passage was first novel. He has also completed other novels, collections of poems, essays, and short stories. Rite of Passage by George D. Parrish
