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Blood of the Lamb

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Florida prison chaplain John Jordan's

search for the peace that has so long eluded him is interrupted by an

unimaginable murder. Attempting to be a good man in a very bad place while also

maintaining his shaky sobriety, John investigates the murder of the seven

year-old adopted daughter of ex-con turned televangelist, Bobby Earl Caldwell, a

murder committed in John's own locked office when Bobby Earl conducts a service

in the Potter Correctional Institution.

This unspeakable act, and the

investigations that follows, will force John to confront his own fears and

beliefs, causing this man of mercy to thirst for justice. Torn between the

duality of the roles he's asked to assume — cop and cleric — John must try to

figure out his identity as well as that of the killer's, but his past continues

to haunt him in the form of troubling thoughts of failure and the resurfacing of

his ex-wife, Susan.

Putting aside his distrust of the slick televangelist

and his seductive wife, John must ignore intimidation and resist manipulation to

find a killer among some very unusual suspects — including two murderers, a child

molester, a teacher with something to hide, and Bobby Earl Caldwell himself

whose very act of exposing his daughter to such risk causes John to suspect him

from the very beginning.

Amid private crises and the

torturous experiences of a thoughtful, sensitive man working in such a pitiless

place, nothing short of death will end John's search for the person who killed

little Nicole Caldwell. Uncovering the guilt, restoring the balance, John seeks

pardon from the self-inflicted life sentence he's serving and exoneration from

the burden of regret he bears.