Caught Inside

by Mark Lee Hamilton

A story that’ll leave you laughing through the tears. Hero, Martyr, Saint… Con Artist? Journalist Katana Callum believes she’s answered that question even before she squares off with Jacques Valen, a supposedly spiritually reformed womanizer and drug user, who’s been hailed an Afghanistan war hero. She’s convinced he’s a fraud, and since he’s mysteriously granted her an interview, she plans to prove it. Katana assumes Valen wants her to write a puff piece to further his new persona, but she plans to expose the shark she knows Valen to be. It’s a gamble that could destroy her career, sink the news organization that trusts her and destroy a perceived modern-day saint. As the interview progresses, she pries a tale out of Valen so shameless, self-defaming and absurd that it shakes her assumptions and forces her to re-examine everything she thought she knew — including herself. Has Valen led her down the proverbial rabbit hole or forced her into a spiritual awakening?

284 pages, Paperback

Published July 29, 2022

Reviews

[Dawn K Veatch · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gritty Healing

This book has a slow start as you work out the initial characters and how the author writes but becomes a "can't put down" as two stories intertwine toward the healed healing the broken as God intends to use our pain to help others. The narrative could stand on it's own without the rated R language. Although I cannot talk, since the author taught me how to use the "f" word like a salty sailor.

Way to go Mark ~ I f...ing enjoyed the surf.