Anthony: Reprobate: The Eight Thrones Cycle, Book 1 (Unabridged‪)‬

James Ligatos is a man with an unusual hobby. He turns promising young criminals into world leaders.

Anthony Hatcher is not a criminal. He's a Reprobate, rescued from the depths of a Heartland mental hospital, tortured and forgotten for daring to break every moral code. So begins the most unusual training the Ligatos group has encountered.

A rule-breaking, nonlinear learner may be more than all of them together can handle. He may also be their last hope to stop a war, for a growing evangelical movement in the Heartland is calling for a crusade to reunify the 10 countries that were once the United States of America. It is up to Anthony to become everything he hates, a teetotalling revival preacher, to save the land and the man he loves.

Worth it.