Plain Heathen Mischief

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 06/14/2005
ISBN: 9781400034116
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Ingram Advance 07/01/2005 pg. 49
New York Times 08/07/2005 pg. 24

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 80007 / Plain Heathen Mischief
Reading Level: 5.9 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 26