Plain Heathen Mischief
After serving six months in prison for an implausible crime, Joel King, a defrocked Baptist minister, finds life as an ex-con unbearably complicated--his wife wants a divorce, he is being sued for $5 million, and fresh start in Montana turns hopeless--on the path to redemption. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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Moments after finishing a six-month sentence in the Roanoke jail for a crime he might not have committed, Baptist minister Joel King is served some unwelcome papers. His wife wants a divorce, and the teenage vixen everyone believes he seduced is suing him for five million dollars. Holding on to his faith with a white-knuckle grip, Joel accepts a ride out west with Edmund Brooks, a member of his former flock who has some Commandment-challenging ideas about helping Joel help himself. Plain Heathen Mischief ranges from the cross to the double cross, from Virginia to Las Vegas, from courtrooms to trout streams, as Martin Clark follows his Job-like hero through dubious choices and high-dollar insurance scams to a redemption no reader could possibly predict.
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