Proof!

PROOF! Second Editionby Dan ChurachMichael Boddin is a middle-aged, New England high school teacher fighting to recover from a serious heart attack and near-death experience. The stresses in his life are heightened by the interplay of his relationships with the three women that are closest to him - his alcoholic wife, his religiously fanatical and over-bearing mother, and his frequently impatient lover. His seemingly typical struggle with a mid-life crisis is thrown into a tangled web of fear and confusion by an apparent out-of-body experience during a visit with the occupants of an unidentified flying object. Was it a real experience, or was it a hallucination?Being quite skeptical of any so-called psychic or paranormal phenomena and fearing that public ridicule would result from any unwanted publicity, Michael is determined to keep his secret away from the media and nearly all his friends. He decides to share his encounter with only two people: Nichole O'Brien, his lover, and Jon Thompkins, a state police officer whose reputation had already been destroyed after he reported his own similar encounter. PROOF! develops the desperate character of Michael Boddin as he becomes obsessed in his attempt to find even the slightest bit of concrete evidence which he could use to prove beyond any doubt that his bizarre experience had actually occurred. His quest for proof leads him on a wild, anxiety-laden search during which he undergoes a medical metamorphosis, is pursued by unknown government agents, seeks divine intervention from both a Catholic priest and a new-age spiritualist, has his life threatened by an Air Force Colonel, gets accused of running a child pornography operation, and is even arrested for murder. Throughout the entire ordeal, Michael and Nichole try to maintain their collective sanity by consistently conjuring up a mutual vision of running away together to a coconut-lined, black sand beach somewhere in rural Hawaii. But before they can transform their fantasy of being together in paradise into a reality, Michael must somehow make contact with the strange beings one more time... PROOF! offers some unique and surprising answers to several age-old questions: Can we explain why supposed miracles happen? Does God really exist? What is the cause of the deja vu phenomenon? Is earth visited by alien beings? PROOF! is loaded with suspense and challenges the reader to keep on guessing right up to the very last page... the very last sentence.