Research Paper On John Locke

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HOW MUCH MONEY WOULD IT TAKE TO MAKE YOU A KILLER? One day a total stranger walks into your home and offers you $100K in cash. The only condition is that if you do, someone will die. The twist is, that person has killed before. Would you take the money? When he's not working for the government Donovan Creed, practiced seducer, ruthless assassin, runs a special line in contract killings. Right now he's involved in a crazed social experiment, but he's finding it hard to reconcile with his conscience.New York Times best-selling author John Locke holds a Guinness World Record for eBook sales and is the international best-selling author of 32 books in six different genres. He is the 8th author in history to have sold one million eBooks on Kindle,

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