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Christians believe the spirit survives the body. The philosopher René Descartes equated mind and spirit and tried to prove them totally separable from the body. Are they? Cocky young Professor Eric Behrens curses the world and wishes he were someone, anyone, else. He trips, is knocked out, and wakes in the body of a middle-aged, overweight Benedictine monk with a severe heart defect. He must survive in an alien environment and in a defectiv...

Father Ignaz Pfefferkorn, ex-S.J., released in January, 1778, and destitute after ten years of Spanish imprisonment, begs his way across France to his home in the Rhineland. He arrives in Unkel-on-the Rhine to find factional strife and ultimately murder in his hoped-for paradise. He is recruited to solve the crime, aided by unlikely helpers: a wealthy Cologne socialite and a head smuggler. He succeeds, only to find himself caught in the cross-...

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Sonora, 1761-62: Father Ygnacio Pfefferkorn, SJ, ill with malaria, is healed by a Pima medicine man: Jevho, and his half-Pima, half-Irish nurse-assistant Patricia O'Meara. A grisly murder is blamed on "Indians." Fr. Ygnacio tracks the murderer, placing his life in jeopardy. Patricia, who loves both the priest and Jevho, must choose which path to follow. "Sonora Moonlight is a brilliant novel... This fascinating work of history and imaginati...

Sonora Wind portrays the actual historical and political conspiracy to destroy a too-powerful branch of the Catholic Church, the Jesuit order. The murder of a military inspector entails a lengthy chase across wild Sonoran country, a long-distance love affair between the Jesuit missionary priest-detective, Ygnacio Pfefferkorn and the widow Beatriz Urrutia, and the ultimate expulsion and imprisonment of the Jesuits from Sonora.