Every Delay Means a Life: Ending 1 of 4

By B Alan Bourgeois

Tom Grady is a retired Army veteran sleeping in his car-unseen by the city's "counts," and one tow away from losing the last thing that still feels like home. When he demands a simple, humane policy-safe parking where people won't be criminalized for closing their eyes-he's shoved into the city's favorite weapons: boilerplate empathy, "partner agencies," liability talk, and endless waiting.

But Tom doesn't stay invisible. He steps up at a City Hall testimony night and forces the room to hear what the system keeps pretending is "theory" real bodies, real exhaustion, real danger-right now.

Written from lived experience-the author was homeless while writing it-this is a tense, human, unflinching story about how quickly a bureaucracy can become lethal... and what happens when one man decides to make the city count its ghosts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GPD4KCYX
• ISBN13: 9798249049744
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 373 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"