Vicar of Bisbee

Status: Available

Page Count: 368

Edition: First

ISBN: 978-1-59092-737-3

SRP (USD): $17.99

Size: 5.5x8.5 trade paperback

Cover: Lynn Watt

Genre(s): Fiction

Homepage: Gordon Mcbride

Bisbee and neighboring ranches are threatened with destruction by a range fire in this sequel to Gordon McBride's "Flying to Tombstone." But the challenges for Father Jerry and his friends are not limited to natural disasters. Human perfidy also shows up in many ways. Trade in young girls as sex slaves across the Mexican border, the exploitation of illegal immigrants and migrant workers, and a fanatical and unprincipled religious fundamentalism all challenge Jerry's values and hopes.

Internal conflicts in his little congregation also give Jerry fresh problems to resolve as he struggles to work out his personal doubts. A new romance, one on hold that finally blossoms, and the collapse of a third combine to make the human drama come alive as the story of Cochise Country, Arizona, and its former mining towns, Tombstone and Bisbee, continues. Matters of personal faith and the vision of what the Church in the twenty-first century can become are lingering subtexts of the story.

"The Vicar of Bisbee" is the second of a three-book series following Father Jerry and his community. The first book, Flying to Tombstone, is also available from Orchard House Press. Visit the author's website (www.gordonmcbride.com) for a six-session study guide for the series.

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