Plain Heathen Mischief
  • Published: 14 June 2005
  • ISBN: 9781400034116
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $45.00

Plain Heathen Mischief

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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.
  • Published: 14 June 2005
  • ISBN: 9781400034116
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $45.00
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Praise for Plain Heathen Mischief

"Outstanding....Delightfully deceitful characters and a perfectly imperfect zinger ending....One of the season's most entertaining yarns." --Miami Herald

"Juicy characters and memorable dialogue are what make this book as pleasurable to inhale as a Krispy Kreme doughnut....Clark's tracing of King's moral arc, from a flawed man of the cloth to a hardened pragmatist, is a thing of beauty. " --Newsday

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