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On the job with America’s Toughest Sheriff

You are a citizen of the county protected by America’s Toughest Sheriff.

Your name is Richard Post. You’re paraplegic, but you’ve made the best of what you have. Your legs are useless, but your arms are powerful. At age thirty-five, you’ve bought a home, raised a kid, and you’re studying for a college degree. You have a life. Then, in one night, most of it is taken away from you.

It happens ten years after the car accident that put you in the wheelchair. It’s the night of St. Patrick’s Day, 1996, and you’re at home in Phoenix, Arizona,…

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is the author of five books, including <em>Before</em> and <em>The Book of Man.</em>

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April 2001

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