Near Occasions Of Sin

Not content playing out the hand society relegates to someone beginning lifes secondhalf, Montgomery St. John avoids, and seeks out, Near Occasions of Sin.

With crackling energy, the novel unwinds a narrative following the protagonists goal touncover truth, discover meaning, and achieve inner peace. The author serves up one insightfulexperience after another, delivering quick-sketch portraits and in depth introductions ofcharacters encountered along this odyssey.

Reared, and until a mature adult, comfortable with his Catholic faith, St. John resignedthe priesthood as a young man, and married. After his wifes death, the children grown, hedons the brown habit of a Franciscan Brother. But war catapults the Franciscan Brother backinto a secular lifestyle. We watch him morph into an innovative risk taker who rolls the diceto satisfy an unquenchable curiosity in both the spiritual, and raw sides of life.

When St. John confronts a fork in the road, where hes able to square only a handfulof aspects of his existence, he seeks absolution by coming to grips with reality: Hell reinventhimself one last time.