Tony Wallace has too much on his plate: the town's most prominent lawyer, shot dead in the borrow ditch; one drug dealer lying dead on the ground in front of an abandoned car, one live one in the trunk; a dirty senator taking bribes to block the killer's extradition back to Montana; an FBI sting; the state Democratic party leadership wooing him to run for the governor's office; a wife and son who need him at home. "How can I keep everybody happy?" he asked his running partner, retired sheriff Timber McCaw. "You can't," Timber replied. "There's no blanket big enough to keep all those toes...
Tony Wallace has too much on his plate: the town's most prominent lawyer, shot dead in the borrow ditch; one drug dealer lying dead on the ground in f...
SAINT FRED is a family story that begins in the hardscrabble mountains of southern Italy in the late 19th century and ends in the early 21st century in the receding waves of the Pacific Ocean. In between family members paint the portrait of Fred: orphan with aspirations of priesthood; fullback with a disconcerting directive from the coach; WWII soldier who was a greater threat to himself than to the enemy; Latin teacher in an education world that was busily jettisoning the Classics; Saint-in-Waiting. Fred literally bounced through life, shedding the misfortunes and celebrating the glories....
SAINT FRED is a family story that begins in the hardscrabble mountains of southern Italy in the late 19th century and ends in the early 21st century i...
