Billy Ansel is a widower and Vietnam veteran whose twins are killed in the bus accident that is the novel's central event. His wife is deceased, and they were his only children, so their deaths leave him alone in the world. Billy owns and manages a garage in Sam Dent where he hires other Vietnam veterans. He is handsome, charming, and wellliked. He says that he likes to be in charge because he is the eldest of five children of an incompetent mother and an absent father. His mother now suffers from Alzheimer's disease and lives in a nursing home. His sisters are all married and have children, and his brother rarely calls. Billy is having an affair with Risa Walker, the wife of a friend. Nobody else in the town knows about.....
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