title: The Desert Rat's Handbook
author: Ruth Burke
description: Ruth Burke was a desert rat in heart and mind long before she moved to the land of cactus, sand and sunshine-nearly fifty years ago.She started moving east from Los Angeles, then lived in Thermal, Blythe, Vicksburg, Salome, Yuma, Phoenix, Mesa, Willcox, Bowie and now resides in San Simon with her dog pal, Gipsy.Born during the Depression, Ruth is still "in it", financially speaking, and has lived for many years at half the "official" poverty level or less.She is a graduate of East Los Angeles College and San Diego State and has taken graduate work at Western New Mexico University.She likes to read, and enjoys sitting on the porch and looking at the mountains.
zlib_text: Table of Contents
  Copyright
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Chapter 11
  Chapter 12
  Chapter 13
  Chapter 14
  Chapter 15
  Chapter 16
  Chapter 17
  Chapter 18
  Chapter 19
  Chapter 20
  Chapter 21
  Chapter 22
  Chapter 23
  Chapter 24
  Chapter 25
  Chapter 26
  Chapter 27
  Chapter 28
  Chapter 29
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  Chapter 1
  Brewer
   
   
  “You know there’s a fuckin’ rat,” Knox said.
  We had been at odds for the last hour. And we were getting nowhere.
  “I have to agree,” Grave said. “There’s no fucking way all of this shit didn’t go down without a
  rat in our midst.”
  “But who would do something like that?” 