Tom Stechschulte

When Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon a group of murdered men, a stash of heroin, and more than two million in cash, he makes a rash decision and takes the money, which soon puts himself and his young wife in danger as they are hunted by a ruthless drug lord.

This depicts the men of Alpha Company. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they left back home. Yet they find sympathy and kindness for strangers (the old man who leads them unscathed through the mine field, the girl who grieves while she...

Falsely accused of rape, Lester Ballard is released from jail, and a trip to the dry-goods store, an errand to the blacksmith, and other incidents are transformed into scenes of the comic and the grotesque.

When his life is shattered by the tragedy of a stillborn child and wife in a coma, a teacher examines his marriage and faith.

This novel describes a horrific crime and its effect on four lives; four voices alternately narrate: Helen, an inmate at Sloatsburg prison for the murder of her children; Dr. Louise Forrest, Sloatsburg's chief of psychiatry; Angie, a Hollywood starlet; and Ike Bradshaw, a corrections officer.