At the opening of Dorothy B. Hughes’s 1963 novel The Expendable Man, the protagonist Hugh Densmore is driving his mother’s white Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix for his niece’s wedding. Hugh is a respectable young doctor from a wealthy and well-educated family, finishing a medical internship at a university hospital in Los Angeles, the type of young man one would describe using those clichés that denote the certainty of future prosperity.
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