youtu.be/oXh6_elf4q4 Please, enjoy and share with your friends. Mark Williams is one of my best friends. That’s a little like saying you’re buddies with Sheriff Rooster Cogburn. There’s a lot to be proud of but you might not share everything about him when children are present. Anyways, he writes. Mostly cop-war-detective-drama stuff. I don’t generally read that genre. Every page seems to read, “Slowly Henderson slid the cold steely barrel of his Crimson Trace side-mount revolver from his holster like he slid a ball-peen hammer from a shelf last evening, to pulverize a nearby cockroach into so much custard. The smell of gunpowder is intoxicating to this gumshoe.” Way too much manning up. You could read fifty of them and never get a mention of a colorful pair of shoes. But I read Mark’s books, because he’s my friend. And because he manages to express the heart of God somewhere in a story you’d think could never find a thimble worth of redemption. So, he writes another detective drama: “Looking for Indianola”. And I strap in for the read; imagining I’ll meet characters with names like “Skitch” or “Peg-leg Gleason”. And…I couldn’t put it down. I couldn’t stop reading it. That old dog made me care about a crime scene. I cared about the crotchety old man from his childhood neighborhood. I cared about the excellently told romance. I cared about the really cool gun-battle near the end. It made me want to be a detective with a partner, shooting it out with bad guys; as long as I could do it without getting blood on my shoes. When I finished I called him the next day, badgering him to write another. Somehow he manages to save his most exceptional profanity for four pages, in the midst of the gun-battle. Everyone of them is comically appropriate to the scene. I’m so proud of my friend. I’m so incredibly grateful to see people I know doing wonderful things. So many of you are producing such outstanding works of and art, poetry, drama, theology and life application for the rest of us. This one just occasionally takes me for scotch at places where middle-aged detectives might hang out.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:24:11 +0000
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