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Before the words "white supremacy" filled the airways, before we learned of American Nazis and the alt-right, before there was a Muslim ban, before we considered building a wall or knew what DACA stands for, there was eugenics--a pseudo-science that promoted the belief that a race could be improved by controlling who was allowed to mate with whom. It was eugenics that compelled white doctors to attempt to murder Baby John. It was compassion that led to his kidnapping. And it is the cruelest of circumstances--the murder of Jennifer Rice--that fifty years later leads Shep Harrington to search for Baby John. As Shep soon learns, the quest brings him to the top of a slippery slope with an ill-defined edge. Question begets question, and the slide down the slope proves inevitable: What happened to the baby? Who took it? Why was he taken? And who killed Jennifer Rice? When Shep learns that Baby John was born at a hospital run by Alton Nichols, a famous Virginia eugenicist, he is drawn into the dark history of the American eugenics movement and its proponents--the so-called "gene police.
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Learn more about Elliott Light by visiting Light's website at http://www.elliottlight.com.Elliott Light grew up outside Washington, D.C. in McLean, Virginia before the beltway encircled the capital city, before farms were turned into housing developments, and before open fields became mega-malls.Light attended the University of Virginia, receiving degrees in Electrical Engineering and Law. He has several patents to his name.After stints as an environmental lawyer and a high tech in-house counsel, he practiced patent law in a private law firm.Now retired, he resides in Naples, FL with his wife, Sonya. Throwaways is his fourth published novel.
