Larry Beinhart: Salvation Boulevard November 21, 2008

Larry Beinhart: Salvation Boulevard (A Voices of Reason Lecture).

This event is part of CFI's ongoing Campaign for Free Expression

Salvation Boulevard is a page-turning thriller in the tradition of John Grisham and Richard Condon that grapples with the ecstatic and entropic nature of religious faith in contemporary America.

Larry Beinhart

Author of "Salvation Boulevard"... He is best known as the author of the political and detective novel American Hero, which was adapted for the political-parody film Wag the Dog. His more recent book, Fog Facts, examines why some important even striking truths are overlooked by the media and the culture at large.

Product Description of Salvation Boulevard

Some cases test a private investigator's wits, others test his courage, and still others, his character. In Salvation Boulevard , P.I. Carl Van Wagener has found a case that tests them all, and then goes on to test his soul. A professor is dead and a suspect-who has confessed-is in custody. But nothing is what it seems. After all, the dead man is an atheist professor, the accused an Islamic foreign student, the defense attorney a Jew, and the detective a Born Again Christian. As Carl gets deeper and deeper into the investigation of the death of professor Nathaniel MacLeod, his most basic beliefs and relationships are tried and his world is turned upside down. The mega-church, the pastor, and his new wife who have redeemed Carl from a life of grim debauchery insist on his dropping the case. But he can't stop searching for the real killer and the truth-no matter what the personal cost.
Salvation Boulevard is a page-turning thriller in the tradition of John Grisham and Richard Condon that grapples with the ecstatic and entropic nature of religious faith in contemporary America.

Price: $5 regular, $4 students, FREE CFI Friends of the Centre

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