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"To Hunt a Holy Man brings to mind the likes of Graham Greene and Brian Moore. Readers will be moved by the depth of characterization and plot which is as intriguing as it is important." –Ron Felber, bestselling author of A Man of Indeterminate Value
Leaving the raw battlefields of…
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To Hunt a Holy Man cuts across the cultural landscape of Vietnam and Thailand circa the 1960s when war raged and everyday Americans drafted into the army became acquainted with drugs, killing, and madness.
Fleeing circumstances impossible to bear, a US Army Catholic priest goes AWOL in search of spiritual fulfillment and a Buddhist monastic life far from death and the battlefield. Enter Fletcher’s protagonist, Mordechai Goodcut, tough, devoted to military discipline, cut off from human emotion, and charged with the pursuit and capture of the priest-deserter. The hunt for the Holy Man is on!
Who could know that Mordechai…
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