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.
Find
this book locally at
Amicus Books in Marysville
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)
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