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Swenson, Paul

 
9781491801765: Slapped!: A Novel Based On a True Story
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ISBN 10: 149180176X ISBN 13: 9781491801765
Verlag: AuthorHouse, 2013

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Two headstrong conservative Mormon housewives, bent on preserving open space near Utah's Jordan River for their children and coming generations, speak out publicly against a multimillion-dollar commercial project that would encroach on the river and destroy wildlife habitat. They are promptly sued by the wealthy, influential, and powerful developers for $1.7 million. When these women choose to stand their ground and fight, the developers do everything in their power to use these women as "whipping moms" so that no citizen or city will ever dare oppose their developments in the future. On these bones of a classic American story (based on actual events), a cast of fascinating characters fleshes out. A bipolar lone-wolf environmental activist forms an alliance with the women and becomes the story's x-factor. A diverse team of lawyers, including a civil rights attorney, supply the women with legal assistance. The developers' network of family members, business associates, political cronies, judges, and church leaders reaches deep into small-town Salt Lake County. Here, they inevitably cross paths with the housewives and their allies. Neighborhood vandalism, vicious gossip, and dirty tricks ensue. The two beleaguered housewives and their ragtag grassroots supporters hunker down to resist a brutal lawsuit, intended to shut them up and break them with legal bills. An important environmental fight morphs into an even more significant battle for free speech. Will a glass and concrete city rise in the river bottoms"

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SLAPPED!

A Novel Based On a True Story

By PAUL SWENSON

AuthorHouse

Copyright © 2013 Paul Swenson
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4918-0176-5

Contents

Prologue...................................................................xiii
Chapter 1 Wind from the River..............................................1
Chapter 2 The Horse's Mouth................................................13
Chapter 3 Something Wild...................................................23
Chapter 4 Wrench in the Works..............................................39
Chapter 5 Monopoly.........................................................49
Chapter 6 Damage...........................................................57
Chapter 7 Dinner on the Dark Side..........................................63
Chapter 8 Year of the Ox...................................................71
Chapter 9 Ox in the Mire...................................................83
Chapter 10 After the Fall..................................................95
Chapter 11 Ides of March...................................................105
Chapter 12 Squawks, Lies, and Audiotape....................................115
Chapter 13 The Big Chill...................................................119
Chapter 14 Hog's Wallow....................................................133
Chapter 15 Crazy Like a Fox................................................143
Chapter 16 Fright Night....................................................151
Chapter 17 Father's Day Massacre...........................................161
Chapter 18 SLAPPing Back...................................................175
Chapter 19 Bizarre Bedfellows..............................................185
Chapter 20 Down by the Riverside...........................................195
Chapter 21 Strange Encounters..............................................209
Chapter 22 Desperate Housewives............................................219
Chapter 23 Popcorn Popping.................................................229
Chapter 24 Costume Party...................................................245
Chapter 25 Battle Scars....................................................257
Chapter 26 Sweating It.....................................................265
Chapter 27 Big.............................................................275
Chapter 28 Poseurs at the Deposition.......................................283
Chapter 29 A Brilliant Madness.............................................287
Chapter 30 What Would Jesus Do?............................................299
Chapter 31 Heels, Deals, and Repeals.......................................309
Chapter 32 Hardball........................................................319
Chapter 33 The High Court Hustle...........................................331
Chapter 34 Pyrrhic Victory.................................................339
Chapter 35 Behind the Green Door...........................................351
Chapter 36 Settlement......................................................359
Epilogue...................................................................371
Endorsements...............................................................385
About the Author...........................................................389


CHAPTER 1

Wind from the River


A bird's-eye view of South Jordan, Utah, in the summer of 1996revealed a patchwork of old homes and new housing developmentsunder a brilliant sun, interlaced with family farms, open fields,and tree-shadowed glades, all in the half embrace of the Wasatch Mountains.

A western gull from the nearby Great Salt Lake, swooping low overa suburban neighborhood, sensed breakfast, observing a feast laid out onpicnic tables positioned in the middle of a curving, snaky street barricadedagainst automobile traffic.

Seated with her husband Ted and her children at one of the tablesbeneath the shade of a cottonwood tree, Julie Bell noticed the gull descendto peck away at a few crumbs that had dropped to the pavement from theplate of rolls she had baked for the picnic that morning. Then, bobbing itshead, the bird lifted its orange beak and beady eyes to search for additionalopportunities to forage.

What kind of people, Julie wondered, were her new neighbors. It wasa welcoming sign that the Bells—just moved in—had been invited tothis street party, but no one had yet made a fuss over their arrival. Later,it would seem fortuitous that Julie bumped into the blond woman at thesalad table.

"Hi," the woman said. "I'm Jessica Ann Tobler." Then, poking her indexfinger between her lips, she appeared to be probing her teeth. Realizing thevisual image, she withdrew the digit and clamped her mouth closed.

"I probably have some lettuce between my teeth," she said.

"Uh, no, not that I can tell," Julie said.

Then, attempting to cover the woman's embarrassment with a gestureof her own, she introduced herself. "I'm Julie Bell," she said, offering herhand.

Was it weird, or somehow oddly appealing, that a stranger had chosento present herself by asking if she had food in her teeth? Curious, Juliethought. Was she insecure? Or was the woman's question a touchingvulnerability, an anomaly in what seemed an otherwise jaunty, evenflamboyant, personal style?

Julie was the stranger, after all. She had noticed the busty blond at anadjoining table, telling stories, laughing, and carrying on unselfconsciously.She had a pretty face, big sparkly hazel-green eyes, and shoulder-lengthhair.

A good-looking man sitting on the top step of the entry to a nearbyhouse smiled indulgently at the conversation. Julie took him to be thewoman's mate.

After a moment, the blond called the man over to introduce him. "Myhusband, Dave," she said, her fingers on his shoulder. Julie shook the handhe extended. "We live close by," Jessica said, "just around the corner anda couple of streets down—the house with the flagpole. Drop in when youget the urge."

It sounded like an open invitation, and while the woman's eagernesswas a little overwhelming, Julie was grateful for the connection. She had asparkle and a spontaneity that were hard not to like. Friendly and talkative,she thought. My kind of person.

"Oh, are these your kids?" Jessica asked as two of Julie's three childrenapproached.

She introduced her daughters, Trish, five, and Cady, eleven. A fewmoments later, her son, Brandon, eight, also wandered over. Jessica reachedinto her pocket and gave each of them a piece of...

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2013
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Englisch
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ISBN 13 
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