Plain heathen mischief
Subtitle: a novel
By: Martin Clark.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; Distributed by Random House; Knopf; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
Subjects: Ex-convicts -- Fiction.; Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.; False testimony -- Fiction.; Ex-clergy -- Fiction.; Baptists -- Fiction.; Missoula (Mont.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Joel King, a defrocked Baptist minister, finds life even more bedeviling once he's served six months for a career-ending crime he might not even have committed. Now his incommunicado wife wants a divorce, the teenage vixen of his disgrace is suing him for a cool $5 million, a fresh start in Montana offers no hope for ex-cons of any religious persuasion, and the refuge provided by his sister turns as nasty as his parole officer." "Talk about a crisis of faith. On the upside, a solicitous member of Joel's former congregation invites him into a scam that could yield some desperately needed cash, and soon the down-on-his-luck preacher is involved with a flock of charming con men, crooked lawyers, and conniving youth."--BOOK JACKET.