Summary:

FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE IS FOR THE FAITHLESS One dedicated youth pastor will soon know the reason why Shortly after relocating his family to the sweet tea-obsessed town of Sumlyn, Missouri, things start to unravel for a dedicated youth pastor. Hawes Trainor has always gone where he’s called without question. And the move to a satellite church from Newhall, CA is no different save for the well-being of his young daughter, Danielle. Affectionately called “D” by her dad, the twelve-year-old soon lands in the local hospital under the watchful eye of the mysterious Dr. Grove. For Hawes and his school teacher wife, Angela, the situation soon spins out of control. He may call the shots, but Angela was nearly selected for the Space Shuttle Challenger, coming within only a few teachers of the fateful mission. She has dreams of her own, yet must put them aside to figure out why D isn't coming out of the hospital. It’s the end of 1985 and the Challenger is getting closer to launch. Will it be one disaster after the next for the youth pastor of unshakable faith? Read In Defense of Knowing by Charles Mahoney and travel back thirty years to when Ronald Reagan was President and there was still a Cold War going on. Experience good versus evil in this "absolutely chilling" tale from one of the most inventive novelists working today.

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~ About the Author ~

Charles Mahoney debuted in 2014 with the publication of his first novel, Story of The Ghost. Ranked high on several reader lists, it's a contemporary piece of literature in which an athletic teenage boy struggles to overcome loneliness and an escaped prisoner's lust for fame as he fields a one-player football team for a Native American school in the Sonoran Desert. His second novel is the investigative thriller The Gray Hound, and is currently available along with Story of The Ghost on Amazon. Want to know more about him and stay in contact? Find him @

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