COAL HEARTED: Corruption, golf balls, fraud, death, Oldsmobiles, coal miners, the IRS, wise men, predatory women, pool halls, salvation, bad haircuts,

COAL HEARTED: Corruption, golf balls, fraud, death, Oldsmobiles, coal miners, the IRS, wise men, predatory women, pool halls, salvation, bad haircuts,

Not often enough, but sometimes, those who need it get the mortal hell beat out of them. Again, sometimes those who need it find God. Someplace between the two, strange, wildly funny, and unpredictable things happen, and then God blinks, and a sparrow falls. The mysteries of love, sex, conception, salvation, death, rebirth, and retribution twist around lives like vines on an oak, and in the twining hints on the nature of God and bare truths about humanity are revealed. Some of this book examines the grooves worn in the oak-hard nature of a coalmining town by the vines. Much of this book is true and happened. Still more of it would not easily stand the scrutiny of a deposition and has been altered. This is a love story, a crime story, a religious tract, a nefarious how-to manual on tax fraud, and a story of multiple transitions taking lives down right-angle paths.