After the Last Race – Koontz, Dean

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Century Oaks Race Course is modeled after the usual

thoroughbred racetrack and is not meant to represent any one,

actual racetrack. The characters in this novel are fictional. Any

resemblance to real persons living or dead is

Wine maketh merry, but money answereth al

things.Ecclesiastes, X. 19Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit

go,Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!Omar Khayyam,

RubáiyátMoney, which represents the prose of life, and which is

hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects

and laws, as beautiful as roses.Ralph Waldo Emerson,

Nominalist and RealistMake money, money by fair means if you

can, if not, by any means money.Horace, Epistles, Bk. IMoney

alone sets al the world in motion.Publilius Syrus, Maxim 656

OneGarrison slowly turned in a ful circle, studying the clear-ing

that lay between the two birch trees. This was where the

gateway man would wait for the signal. Here where the view

was good. Here in the shadows. Here with no one but the birds.

It was perfect.At one o’clock in the afternoon, the thickly wooded

ridge was stil damp from the morning’s thundershowers. The

leaves on the lowest branches sparkled with fat drop-lets of

water that had gradual y dripped down from the higher reaches