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The Prophet of Marathon<\/em> is here!\u00a0 I am thrilled to announce the release of my second novel.\u00a0 And don’t forget about\u00a0Peripheral Involvement<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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\"Final\"<\/a>James Bennett didn\u2019t come to the Florida Keys to find a new father. As the rebellious, serially underemployed scion of an old-money New York family, he\u2019d spent years disappointing the one he already had. But when smooth-talking ex-televangelist John Wainwright takes an interest in him, he spurns an invitation to grow up and finally join his family\u2019s business on Wall Street in favor of staying in Marathon to help Wainwright rebuild his church.<\/p>\n

When James\u2019 faith in his new mentor and his infatuation with Wainwright\u2019s beautiful, estranged daughter lead him into a maze of deception and double-crosses, he\u2019s left to try to find a path to redemption on his own, and he can only hope that his father will still be there to meet him on the other side.<\/p>\n

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The Prophet of Marathon<\/em>\u00a0is available in both paperback and ebook editions.<\/p>\n

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\"Peripheral_Involveme_Cover_for_Kindle\"Jack Caufield never imagined that he would wake up one day and find a dead woman in his bed. That sort of thing wasn’t supposed to happen to guys like him. He was on his way to law school, but instead of fielding Socratic questions from law professors, he finds himself facing the third degree from a bunch of angry cops. Despite their efforts, they find nothing incriminating, and Jack is allowed to get on with his education and his life.<\/p>\n

Over the next fifteen years, he becomes a modestly successful corporate lawyer, a well-paid but insignificant cog in the Wall Street machine. He’s resigned to playing a disappointing role in the system that he has come to disdain, until he learns that his encounter with that unlucky girl may not have been coincidental. Confronted with the possibility that the men who run the prestigious financial institution that he now represents may have been involved in a shocking conspiracy, his search for the truth is complicated by the knowledge that discovering it could cost him the career that he’s spent his life chasing.<\/p>\n

Peripheral Involvement explores Jack’s struggle to reconcile the reality of his life against his expectations and to refine his understanding of success. Along the way, it looks at the absurdity of the modern-day financial industry, the current state of the American Dream, our propensity for self-deception… and baseball.<\/p>\n

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Peripheral Involvement<\/em> is available in both paperback and\u00a0ebook editions.<\/p>\n

Click here for a preview of Peripheral Involvement on Kindle!<\/a><\/p>\n

Or, click here to hear me read the first chapter:<\/p>\n

Bob Waldner Reads the First Chapter of Peripheral Involvement<\/a><\/p>\n

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