Bücher von John A Vanek

While investigating a haunting at St. Joseph's Hospital, Father Jake Austin encounters the "Night Nurse," the ghost of a woman killed in a fiery car crash decades earlier. The evidence suggests she was murdered, and Jake tracks down her killer in the coldest of cold cases. The Superior General of his Catholic order learns of his expertise in solving mysteries and sends him to New Orleans to investigate a priest suspected of being both a sexual predator and a thief. As he brings the investigation to a close, he's anxious to return to his parish to resume his normal duties. It is, however, the calm before the proverbial storm. A car bomb explodes outside his father's house and another bomb severely injures his associate pastor, and suddenly he is embroiled in a vendetta that endangers those he loves and will entirely change his life and his future.

Father Jake Austin’s alcoholic father suddenly returns to town, decades after deserting him as a young boy.  His dad is fleeing a vindictive drug lord and begs him for help.  Although Jake detests his old man for abandoning him, he can’t allow him to be murdered, so he enlists the help of his friend, Sheriff Tremont Macon.  Because of his dad’s deteriorating health, he is admitted to the hospital and placed in a room adjacent to an injured drug mule, allowing Macon to station an armed guard outside their rooms for protection. Despite police security, the gang murders the drug mule and Sheriff Macon decides to place Jake’s father into protective custody in jail.  There, he learns that Jake’s dad has not only stolen uncut cocaine from the drug dealers but has also witnessed the kingpin order a murder.  The mob wants the coke back and Austin Sr. dead. Because the mob cannot get to Jake’s father, they unleash their wrath on the people closest to Jake and the violence escalates.  Will the sins of the father be visited on his son, as prophesied in the Bible?  In a desperate attempt to shut the drug ring down, the FBI asks Jake to be the bait in a sting operation.  Will Jake turn his back on the father who deserted him as a child, or will he turn the other cheek and save him from a vengeful drug lord, risking his own life and the lives of those he loves?