TERMINAL JUSTICE and TARNISHED IMAGE by ALTON GANSKY are two novels that really need to be read in sequence, although the fact that I read the second one first didn't in any way spoil things for me. This author has an amazing 
way with words - he makes you see what he is describing - and an insight into human nature that really makes one think. He tells things as they are in a fallen world, where companies like Barringstone Relief are trying to make a difference for good against all odds.
Dr David O'Neal is a former preacher who left his church after his wife left him for another man and now works for Barringstone Relief - first of all as A J Barringstone's speech maker and then as CEO. As he is exposed to unimaginable disease and poverty, and with the encouragement of both A J and the lovely Kristen LaCroix, his problems pale into insignificance and he regains his faith in God. He is a sensitive and upstanding man, loyal to a fault, and battles with his conscience in Terminal Justice.
In Tarnished Image he is set up by an unknown and unscrupulous enemy and has to fight, not only for his own life, but for the lives of those he loves and for his beloved Barringstones.
There is no simple answer to the problems in the world, largely brought about by selfishness and greed, but in these suspenseful novels we see the darkness being pushed back little by little by men and women who lay down their lives for others. There is a really strong Christian message and I highly recommend these books.
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