Holy Moly
Author | : Ben Rehder |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2008-05-13 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781466823655 |
ISBN-13 | : 1466823658 |
Rating | : 4/5 (658 Downloads) |
Download or read book Holy Moly written by Ben Rehder and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When televangelist Peter Boothe decides to build a megachurch on the banks of the Pedernales River, he thinks his biggest problem will be a few unhappy neighbors. However, when backhoe operator Hollis Farley unearths a rare fossil on the construction site---a discovery that could lead to plenty of embarrassing Darwinian publicity---the cover-up begins. Soon, Farley is dead, shot in the back with an arrow, and Game Warden John Marlin is asked to help with the case. What he and the local deputies find is a suspect list of biblical proportions: Could it have been the bitter geology professor? The private fossil collector with a somewhat unusual fetish? The minister’s wife who takes the Commandments rather lightly? Or the geriatric environmentalist with a mean right hook? Nothing is sacred in Holy Moly, Rehder’s most laughable Blanco County satire yet, a twisted tale of greed, corruption, infidelity, and, yes, paleontology.