Crossbearer: A Memoir of Faith

Joe Eszterhas knew a lot about darkness. Growing up in refugee camps and then in Americas back alleys he used this knowledge first as a journalist and then as a wildly successful screenwriter of sexually graphic and violent films like Basic Instinct Jagged Edge and Jade.. Then on a hellishly hot day in 2001 desperately battling to survive throat cancer and his addictions to alcohol and cigarettes Joe Eszterhas found God. Or God found him. And he came from darkness into light.. Crossbearer is the moving and sometimes funny story of a man who turned his back on the wild world hed immersed himself in for far too long to embrace a new life full of faith family and love. During his journey Eszterhas discovers God in the most surprising places: a family game of baseball a childs photograph of a cloud a dying mothers dying roses. Through it all he remains thoroughly himself―wearing a Rolling Stones T-shirt as he carried the cross down the church aisle―but becomes a better version of himself than hed been before.