Matai

Simon Pack Novel # 6

Simon Pack’s protégé, Josh Panchrest, at age 29 has ferried through foster homes, suffered physical and psychic wounds in combat, stuck with an injured smokejumper during a night of horror, walked through a field of flames to save a mother and son, and suffered a career-ending injury. Now he again fights through all the setbacks seeking fulfillment in some new challenge. He has eyes on big-time football coaching, but after realizing that’s a pipe dream, he lands a job teaching and coaching at a small town high school. The town requires rejuvenation as much as Josh. A one-time economic dynamo, the town has suffered a series of hard times in the past century. Can Josh resuscitate his future, and maybe the town’s as well? Both Josh and the town learn the true meaning of community, love, respect, and teamwork. This is an uplifting twin allegory of man’s quest for meaning.