<div>Soon to be a an FX series starring and produced by Matthew McConaugheyA LitHub Most Anticipated Book of Summer "The Churchgoer is a wonderful debut novel from a writer with more than a few tricks up his sleeve.&#8221;--Los Angeles TimesA haunting debut literary noir about a former pastor&#8217;s search to find a missing woman in the toxic, contradictory underbelly of southern California.&#8220;He was finished with church, with God, with all of it. But to find the girl, he has to go back.&#8221;In Mark Haines&#8217;s former life, he was an evangelical youth pastor, a role model, and a family man&#8212;until he abandoned his wife, his daughter, and his beliefs. Now he&#8217;s marking time between sunny days surfing and dark nights working security at an industrial complex. His isolation is broken when Cindy, a charming twenty-two-year old drifter he sees hitchhiking on the Pacific Coast Highway, hustles him for a breakfast and a place to crash&#8212;two cynical kindred spirits. Then his co-worker is murdered in a robbery gone wrong and Cindy disappears on the same night. Haines knows he should let it go and return to his safe life of solitude. Instead, he&#8217;s driven to find out where Cindy went, under stranger and stranger circumstances. Soon Mark is chasing leads, each one taking him back into a world where his old life came crashing down&#8212;into the seedier side of southern California&#8217;s drug trade and ultimately into the secrets of an Evangelical megachurch where his past and his future are about to converge. What begins as an investigation becomes a haunting mystery and a psychological journey both for Mark, and for the elusive young stranger he won&#8217;t let get away.Set in the early 2000s, The Churchgoer is a gripping noir, a quiet subversion of the genre, and a powerful meditation on belief, morality, and the nature of evil in contemporary life. </div>

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