At The Corner of Mercy and Grace

Harold Langley a highly decorated Marine returns from Vietnam with the war still raging inside his mind. The flashbacks nightmares and battle scenes become a daily ritual that he fights and attempts to control.</P><P>Early one morning he crossed over the line between Vietnam and insanity declaring war on society. The thrill of combat returned as he methodically stuffed a pistol tape and knife in to a bag and walked out the door to establish his new identity: starker robber and abductor.</P><P>He returns to his wife and children and resumes a normal life with little memory of his crimes. By day he portrays a polished Marine respected honored and admired by the Corps with rows of combat medals but by night he is transformed into a renegade dousing his body with drugs and alcohol to deal with the memories.</P><P>He stands in his office and discusses headlines of his crimes with friends with distaste for the coward who would do such a thing. They have no idea that the predator they're reading about in the newspaper is standing in their midst.</P><P>The war suddenly ends when the God of Mercy and Grace intervenes with a surprising twist of events that launch him into a new war for his soul and his eternal destiny.</P>