Tell me about those books. I think someone reccommeded them to me once, in a previous lifetime....
Memory's getting worse.
Excellent books. Fictional account of wide spread corruption in two separate communities. "This present darkness" is the first of the two (Piercing is the sequal using many of the same characters)
The books are written from a Christian perspective and deal heavily in spiritual warfare, that is, as things are happening in the physical world the book describes what the forces of good and evil are doing in the spiritual world.
From what I hear from connectthedots they apply very closley to the situation in Washington. Lots of people covering for each other, some willingly, some out of fear and some because they are trapped in the system.
Main hero of the first book is the new newspaper editor in town (town of Ashton IIRC) whose daughter gets sucked into a local cult. As he investigates he finds more and more links of corruption and evil. (even has some arkancide type plot lines in it)
Very entertaining stories, both very well written. Plan to spend the whole night reading.