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Snapper Side-Swipe Caper   Alex Carrick  Prologue: 1987  “What’s
$100,000?” she asked flippantly.    They’d been living together
in a basement apartment for seven months while attending Queen’s
University in Kingston, Ontario. Their undergraduate programs
were coming to an end and it was time to think of the future.
Hudson Hicks was absolutely certain what he wanted to do. He’d
run for president of the student council the past year and been
narrowly defeated. It was a minor setback.  He loved politics –
the dogma and the out-takes, the drama and debates, the gossip
and intrigue, the backroom dealings and the time in the
spotlight. They were all “crack” to him.  At first, he’d thought
his name was a liability. He’d come to understand otherwise. The
manner in which “Hudson” rolled off the tongue conveyed class
and “Hicks”, for an obvious reason, carried a common touch.
He’d been accepted