Rio Norte Press

The raptures of a Christian minister and a pretty, young wife occur within a month of each other in a small southern Illinois town.  The minister's congregation is stunned, and none more so than George Brinnon, whose wife Emily was one of the taken.  Suspecting foul play, the sheriff investigates, while George, confident that his deity will reveal all, sets off on a quest to discover why he is not in heaven with his Emily.  His quest leads him to a battle between good and evil that uncovers whatever revelation is available to us.

"Jack Wilson's Sent Back presents a world in which genuine Faith, Hope and Charity have sunk beneath the self-absorbed pious cant of the "rhapsody" and the business of popular books on religion. He takes his place among satirists of a piety linked to greed, lust, and egoism---writers like Ben Jonson, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Butler and Sinclair Lewis."

     ---James E. Gill, editor of Postmodern Essays of Eighteen Century Satire

"Jack Wilson writes a mystery that totally engages the reader while deploying a hilarious satire to expose the religious right and how they have twisted the normal ends of life into a fantasy."

    ---Barbara Lorie,  winner of the Nancy Susan Reynolds Award

"Sharp-witted and sensitive...these women are savvy subverters of a world that is unable to erase or detonate their voices or minds, no matter how many heavens (or heaven-vendors) attempt to claim them."

    ---Sophia Kartsonis,  Intaglio,  Kent State University Press