Josh is a graduate of a Jesuit university. He lives on the West Coast of the U.S. Other places he has lived, and which he likes to write about, include Central Europe and the Middle East.
STORY A loose-cannon Catholic priest barnstorms his way across the Middle East - bent on revenge for every slight against him. Things get heavy when he mixes it up with Islamic holy men that are looking for somebody to behead - like, for instance, a boorish American cleric named Cleveland Pike. The outcome is not some kind of metaphor for the Modern Crusades. Not even close... It's true that...