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Charlie
Chambers is a civil rights lawyer. The lawyer travels where he is needed
and represents mostly religious civil rights cases. Charlie's current
case is against country music superstar, Carol Harmon. He is
representing a group of people who were run over and injured by Ms.
Harmon's driver.
While representing these clients, a strange string of events starts to
occur. Carol Harmon introduces Charlie to an area known as Burning
Chapel Hill. This hill contains the remnants of a
church burnt to the ground in 1962. The entire congregation was murdered
that day as they prayed and planned for the church's one hundredth
anniversary. No one was ever tried for this horrible crime as no
investigation was ever conducted. Furthermore, this terrible act was
racially motivated.
Charlie is also introduced to Tommy Trenton. Nicknamed the Preacher,
Tommy is suddenly arrested for preaching the gospel and handing out
religious literature as he's done without incident for years. Then, a
man named Corey Merriman commits suicide leaving unaccountably-large
quantities of money and faked ledgers.
THE PREACHER is a complexly woven mystery with a civil rights twist.
From the very first page of this book, the reader is drawn into the
racially motivated church fire and murders. Immediately, the reader
wants to know the how and why of this horrible event and see justice
served. Soon, however, the reader finds him or
herself completely and deeply involved in a complex web of characters
and coincidental events. This book is page turner from start to finish.
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