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BOOK MAN
A quiet theft. A loud family. A man who mistakes being right for being needed.
In late‑1980s Omaha, campus cop Jon “Steve” Stevens discovers a rare‑book crime that leaves the books but steals their histories. The case gives him purpose as his home life splinters.
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Story overview
Jon “Steve” Stevens is a campus cop with a badge that barely counts and a house that barely holds. A memo about tightened procedures in the rare‑book room pulls him into a strange crime where nothing is missing, but meaning is being stolen. The deeper he digs, the more the case becomes his stage — and the more his family slips away.
BOOK MAN is a comedic‑dramatic crime novel about invisible labor, institutional denial, and a man learning that being right does not make him whole.
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