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

After the Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938, nearly 10,000 Jewish children were sent abroad without their parents, to escape Nazi Germany.  Edith M. Baer was one of these children.

In England Edith lived with a mismatched couple, ill prepared to fill the gaping chasm left by the bereft child's loss of family, home, and native language. Malaise and loneliness engulf her. A Disney character bouncing out of the child's book becomes her cherished companion.

In her effort to take Edith to America to unite with her parents, her aunt Erna must battle every hurdle and obstacle a bureaucracy can toss her way.

Jimmy Spencer, a floorman at a major Las Vegas casino, receives a phone call from an old friend about a sure-fire gambling system he's developed called "Free Money."

After a quick visit and tutoring from his friend, Jimmy returns to Vegas and begins dabbling in the Free Money System.

And he wins. Hundreds of dollars at first, then thousands, then tens of thousands. The potential for vast amounts of "Free Money" seems palpable.

But nothing is ever free. As he wins more and more money, Jimmy feels himself being stalked by various underworld thugs and terrorists.  His old friend ends up dead.

Surrounded by FBI agents and ultimately pressured to go into the Witness Protection Program, Jimmy realizes that he has to find a way out of the system.

And the chase is on...

Julian K. Nail was a Sergeant in the Quartermaster Supply -- a support unit of the 78th Troop Carrier Squadron.  Their job--outfit and supply the CG-4A gliders that would carry the D-Day invasion equipment behind the enemy lines.

This is his story...