The Angel's Chair by Dennis Jung

Two men and a woman who were once intimate friends are forced to revisit a tragic secret from forty-five years ago. One of the men is an Episcopal priest facing the end of his calling; the other, a man with a checkered past who has finally found his way; and the woman they both loved who is running from her past seemingly without direction - three people facing their sin and possible redemption. Their paths become reconnected when a Mexican investigative journalist reopens their wound in an unlikely way. When the priest and the journalist are subsequently abducted at the direction of a prominent Mexican politician seeking the journalist's damaging exposé on his opponent, the priest's two friends, long estranged by their remorse and own tangled history, reunite in an attempt to rescue him. What follows is a suspenseful thriller, but also a story about the evolution of love and friendship and the cost of one's past. With settings as varied as a small farm in Mexico, to present day Austin, a Syrian refugee camp on the Turkish border, a bar in Oaxaca, and finally to an isolated ranch in northern New Mexico. THE ANGEL'S CHAIR is at its heart a story of how a single act can color one's life, and the price one is willing to pay for redemption.