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Book Review of Spellbinder

Spellbinder
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Spellbinder reveals the world of "Preacher"- a seductinve, glittering owrld of big time religious revivalism. From the foxholes of Vietnam to California communes, fromt he small town-churches of the Bible Belt to the sound stages of big business, Preacher becomes the new religious superstar: rich, powerful and -for a time-happy.

But the gift of grace burns on beneath the sexual passions and conflicts of his life as head of a vast new empire--and Preacher is forced to make a choice that brings this novel to it's stunning, wrenching climax.