NEAR OCCASIONS OF SIN
Avoid OR Seek Out
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About the Book
Not content playing out the hand society relegates to someone beginning life’s second
half, Montgomery St. John avoids, and seeks out, Near Occasions of Sin.
With crackling energy, the novel unwinds a narrative following the protagonist’s goal to
uncover truth, discover meaning, and achieve inner peace. The author serves up one insightful
experience after another, delivering quick-sketch portraits and in depth introductions of
characters encountered along this odyssey.
Reared, and until a mature adult, comfortable with his Catholic faith, St. John resigned
the priesthood as a young man, and married. After his wife’s death, the children grown, he
dons the brown habit of a Franciscan Brother. But war catapults the Franciscan Brother back
into a secular lifestyle. We watch him morph into an innovative risk taker who rolls the dice
to satisfy an unquenchable curiosity in both the spiritual, and raw sides of life.
When St. John confronts a fork in the road, where he’s able to square only a handful
of aspects of his existence, he seeks absolution by coming to grips with reality: He’ll reinvent
himself one last time.
About the Author
Frank Herbert Spittle’s published humor includes Sailor, Write Your Mother! spoofi ng his fi ve year Navy hitch. A second book, Can You See Me Now? takes the reader on a zany ride through an unhinged childhood. Fast moving mainstream novels, The Trailer Two Spaces Down and Near Occasions of Sin, have launched him into what Frank describes “A satisfying lifestyle as a writer.” Frank and his wife Darlene make their home in Laguna Hills, California.