Plain Heathen Mischief, Martin Clark
Plain Heathen Mischief, Martin Clark
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Plain Heathen Mischief

Author: Martin Clark

Narrator: David Aaron Baker

Unabridged: 19 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/08/2015


Synopsis

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.

"Sweet and wicked. … A pumped-up joyride across the rocky terrain of modern ethics and faith."—Entertainment Weekly

Reviews

Goodreads review by Philip

Another 4-star entry from Martin Clark. Even more so than his equally strong The Legal Limit, Plain Heathen Mischief is as much a morality play as it is a novel. Both stories center on basically good people who early on make one truly bad decision, and then spend the rest of the book trying to make......more

Goodreads review by Larry

This book takes place mostly in Roanoke, Virginia, where I currently live. Clark gets the details just right. The mega church, the spoiled girl from suburbia, even the old mall. So many Roanoke things factor into the story that you might think it is of regional interest only. It’s not. Clark is a fi......more