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  • The Pale-Faced Lie

  • A True Story
  • By: David Crow
  • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
  • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (36 ratings)

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The Pale-Faced Lie

By: David Crow
Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
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Summary

Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his siblings idolized their dad. Tall, strong, smart, and brave, the self-taught Cherokee regaled his family with stories of his World War II feats. But as time passed, David discovered the other side of Thurston Crow, the ex-con with his own code of ethics that justified cruelty, violence, lies - even murder.

A shrewd con artist with a genius IQ, Thurston intimidated David with beatings to coerce him into doing his criminal bidding. David's mom, too mentally ill to care for her children, couldn't protect him. One day, Thurston packed up the house and took the kids, leaving her nothing. Soon he remarried, and David learned that his stepmother was just as vicious and abusive as his father.

Through sheer determination, and with the help of a few angels along the way, David managed to get into college and achieve professional success. When he finally found the courage to stop helping his father with his criminal activities, he unwittingly triggered a plot of revenge that would force him into a showdown with Thurston Crow. With lives at stake, including his own, David would have only 24 hours to outsmart his father - the brilliant, psychotic man who bragged that the three years he spent in the notorious San Quentin State Prison had been the easiest time of his life.

©2019 David Crow (P)2020 Tantor
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A gift to the reader/listener in many ways

At the story level, an engossing and amazing lesson in survival, overcoming and an argunent that angels do exist, somehow pulling special people out of hellish depths and into a life blessed with wisdom and allowing for a loving, humble and giving life.
At a much deeper level, no matter the depth of suffering so many children, young adults and old folks, like me, still healing the wounds and pain...whether David's kind of hell or the more common absorbtion of the negativity of "average" unhappy parents....the reality that we hold the key within ourselves to make our own healing begin or continue is put clearly forward by the amazing life shared by David...and i thank him and send my deepest admiration.

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the Narration

the authenticity was profound, touching true story which made me cry at the end,
excellent and riveting

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in5eresting and cruel

this was a very interesting but cruel book, very well read and interesting story. I would be happy to recommend this book, a true story well read.

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Appalling cruelty, interesting story

I was not too struck by the narrator but the story held me. How anyone can treat their children that way is a mystery to me. Well written, detailed book.

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