Out of the Fire

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INTRODUCTION FOR THIS 382 page soft cover
NON-FICTION BIOGRAPHY

   When a young Midwesterner leaves home for college at Humboldt State University in wild and rugged Northern California, hoping for a dream job as fire fighter with the U.S. Forest Service, he finds a lot more than he bargained for: from catastrophic wildfires to gut-wrenching affairs of the heart; from crewman on cutting edge helicopters on the Klamath National Forest and member of the elite Rogue River Hotshots, to a summer in Berkeley at the height of the hippie craze.

He starts out as an evangelistic atheist (“What you see is all there is,” and “When it’s over, it’s over”) with three life goals: fame, fortune, and true love. But when involvement in the drug scene leads to encounters with the spiritual realm, he realizes “There’s a lot more going on out here than what I can see.”

For a while his double life (college student by winter, forest fire fighter by summer) works well. Flush with money from summer work, he buys a house to live in and takes in female college students as boarders, leaving him free to pursue his life’s calling: a creative writer outside society’s mainstream. Even though floods, termites, and foul water can’t stop him, his own inner conflicts, personal weaknesses and delusions can. (Oh yes, and don’t forget the malevolent spirits he so wanted to meet.) His visions derail and he’s left a basket case. So much for fame and fortune, but what about true love? A little more complicated than it looked. Then what else is left? Calling out to the God he rejected? Floating blissfully down life’s river toward the rocky falls of self-destruction? But then there was Mike Harris.

   Join him in this true story as he struggles to find out what life is all about and where he fits in, and discover the surprise ending that changes his life completely.

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and Nationally at Christian Products.


Testimonials—The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

The Good

“I really appreciated your total honesty. I just enjoyed it so much… it’s incredible.”

C.S.—Housewife from San Diego

“I… commend your… literary craftsmanship.”

        R.D.--Founder of the Life Chain, retired high school English teacher

“I found this book to be really well written and fun to follow.”

 D.G.—The best carpenter in Yuba City.

“I don’t usually read books, but once I started I could hardly put it down.”

    J.R.--Retired pastor, used car salesman  

I found it very encouraging that [Hobbs] could screw up so badly and still turn out to be the fine man I know today. Maybe there’s hope for me too.”        S.T.--College student

 The Bad

“[When I asked our president] to listen to [a] passage…[his] mouth dropped open, then he laughed and said, ‘You’re kidding—right? What is it, a Harlequin romance?

“[We find] David’s book unacceptable to advertise [in our] Christmas Gift Guide Section.”                                                            R.M. --Editor of well known Christian Newsletter

As a fire service memoir, it isn’t something that others want to read. Heck, you know how men are. The less they know about someone’s ‘real’ personal life, the better it is. They will heckle and tease and find your goats all in the name of ‘brotherhood,’ but they don’t really want to know what’s in your head and heart when it comes to issues outside the fire service.”                                                                     Peggy--Firefighters Bookstore

 The Downright Ugly 

Youre  f***in lame, you call you’re a hotshot, pussy.” (sic)   Anonymous


 4L Press phone number to get more info or place order: 530 742-4739
Publisher—4L Press, P.O. Box 5975, Marysville, CA 95901
1st ed. July, 2006, 2nd ed. Jan. 2007
ISBN # 978-1-59971-661-9,
Retail Price ($15.00)
Bookstore distribution through Spring Arbor
Email:sales@4lpress.com

                            


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