The Angel's Chair - Jung, Dennis
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Two men and a woman who were once intimate friends are forced to revisit a tragic secret from forty-five years ago. One of the men is an Episcopal priest facing the end of his calling; the other, a man with a checkered past who has finally found his way; and the woman they both loved who is running from her past seemingly without direction - three people facing their sin and possible redemption. Their paths become reconnected when a Mexican investigative journalist reopens their wound in an unlikely way. When the priest and the journalist are subsequently abducted at the direction of a…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Two men and a woman who were once intimate friends are forced to revisit a tragic secret from forty-five years ago. One of the men is an Episcopal priest facing the end of his calling; the other, a man with a checkered past who has finally found his way; and the woman they both loved who is running from her past seemingly without direction - three people facing their sin and possible redemption. Their paths become reconnected when a Mexican investigative journalist reopens their wound in an unlikely way. When the priest and the journalist are subsequently abducted at the direction of a prominent Mexican politician seeking the journalist's damaging exposé on his opponent, the priest's two friends, long estranged by their remorse and own tangled history, reunite in an attempt to rescue him. What follows is a suspenseful thriller, but also a story about the evolution of love and friendship and the cost of one's past. With settings as varied as a small farm in Mexico, to present day Austin, a Syrian refugee camp on the Turkish border, a bar in Oaxaca, and finally to an isolated ranch in northern New Mexico. THE ANGEL'S CHAIR is at its heart a story of how a single act can color one's life, and the price one is willing to pay for redemption.
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Autorenporträt
As a child, Dennis Jung's imagination outgrew his small town roots in the German speaking part of the Texas Hill Country thanks in part to a bibliophile mother and what his mother recognized as Unruhe, the German word for restlessness. An undergraduate degree in anthropology and a stint as a military police officer in Germany only deepened his love of travel and a desire for a life outside of the norm. A subsequent career as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner allowed him the flexibility to travel to many parts of the world. After a volunteer assignment in the Marshall Islands and a long road trip in Asia and the Pacific, he and his wife eventually settled in Hawaii, a place he still regards as his spiritual home. It was there he began writing in earnest, an endeavor that allowed him to live vicariously and feed a desire to embellish. His stories' use of visual imagery and his strong sense of place transport the reader to not only a geographical location but the mental landscape of his characters as well. Tapping into his interest and background in anthropology, he weaves into his stories a sense both of the mystical and the universal human experience - the drama and conflicts that consume us all, regardless of cultural identity. His locales encompass Balinese rice paddies to the refugee camps of the Sudan, the Guatemalan highlands to a decrepit hotel in the Congo, the Green Zone of Baghdad to the streets of Oaxaca during Day of the Dead, the war torn frontier between Syria and Lebanon, and a night ride in an ambulance in Ebola-stricken Sierra Leone to the alleyways of Honolulu's Chinatown. He recently retired from a long career in pediatrics, a profession that exposed him to the rich complexity of the human experience and the sense of compassion required to write characters that are both real and wonderfully flawed. He currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his wife.