Adult novel set one hundred years ago at the end of the frontier period in the United States. It is 1892 and a girl's body is discovered in the woods beside a lake on the frontier of civilisation. As the mystery of the body unfolds so is the guilt and terror of the past intermingled with the idealism of the future. The author's previous novels are 'Julia Paradise', winner of the South Australian Premier's National Fiction Award in 1988 and translated into ten languages, and 'Prince of the Lilies'.

"The story of Georgia's 'Dixie Mafia' has never been told. At its core was one man and he was bigger than life. He was the author and enforcer of the rules that governed the entire organization. He set the standard of code that made the 'Dixie Mafia" impenetrable. And he was the one that anyone who broke that code would have to face. His name was Billy Sunday Birt and this is his story" --page 4 cover.

Part of the Library of Religious Biography, this is the first full-length treatment of mass-evangelist Billy Sunday to appear in 30 years. Lyle Dorsett makes a fresh and original contribuion to our understanding of this pugnaious baseball player-turned-preacher with his use of the Sunday family papers, a source previously unavailable to biographers.

Billy Sunday was a major league baseball player turned evangelist. His three hundred revivals attracted an estimated one hundred million listeners.

Billy Wayne Sinclair's powerful tale about his time at one of the worst prison systems in...