Böcker av Randy Roeder

"There's nothing like the collapse of your every claim to human decency to take the edge off the day."Cletus Efferding has everything going for him-a beautiful fiancée, a successful business, dinners at the Cedar Rapids Country Club, and a luxurious penthouse condo awaiting his arrival, There's just one problem. Cletus has difficulties with the truth and his deceptions catch up with him.With his life in shambles, a reluctant Cletus undertakes a mission to rescue the young man responsible for his downfall and return him unharmed to the arms of a loving sister. Gone are the days of lunches with bank presidents as Cletus finds himself in the New Mexican desert sharing brown rice with delusional cult members.Cut off from the outside world, Clete discovers a community where nothing is as it appears to be, followers are virtual prisoners, and those seen as threats to a paranoid leadership disappear. His world grows steadily smaller until he discovers the true meaning of life-survival.

"A man ain't lived until he's been investigated for something."On his first real vacation in over a decade, Cletus Efferding finds himself entangled in a web of deceit going back nearly a century when a down-and-out fisherman discovers an ornate antique coffin on a sandbar south of his hometown.Though the fisherman's discovery and a lucky buy at an estate auction make for pleasant holiday diversions, Clete learns the town's citizens wish he had never returned, and the sole surviving adult in his family hates him. Things go from bad to worse when a pair of semi-retired hitmen show up, leading officials to believe he is involved in a horrific murder. Caught up in a network of lies and unable to make sense of a cold-blooded killing, Efferding realizes he is a marked man and just might need the cemetery plot his parents bought for him.You can't go home again. Wise words, but Cletus never expected to find himself trapped between a psychopathic killer and a murder charge—shouldering the heavy burden of his family's sins of omission.

Guilt can eat at you until there's nothing left.Cletus Efferding has just put his life back together when all hell breaks loose. A woman's body is found in an abandoned car, and Clete is the prime suspect in a murder case.Cletus wants the matter settled, but when the police department mysteriously drops the investigation, he can't let it go and vows to crack the case. With no experience and nothing to go on, Clete finds himself in over his head as the local toughs discover his inquiry and attempt to silence him.Now, entangled with criminals embroiled in prostitution, drug trafficking, and murder, Cletus learns the threat extends to his friends. Determined to protect them, he is nearly undone when the tab for his sins come in at a price he's unable to pay.With his life in danger and the prospect of defeat threatening to destroy his very soul, Cletus Efferding must answer the question, "How far can a good man go?"