Trickery is magic until you figure out how its doneRichard Harjos job is to counsel death row inmates in Oklahomas notorious McAlester Prison That usually consists of convincing them heaven is a sort of afterlife work release program and God is the most gullible parole officer ever All theyve got to do to qualify is have faith as they walk quietly to the execution chamberNo wonder Richard has lost faith in all things supernaturalEverything changes when he meets a Choctaw murderer named Holabi Minco Native guards say the inmate is a witch and they might be right He keeps a popsicle stick calendar in his cell that tells when people are going to die and does so more accurately than the DOC roster Minco befriends Richard and sends him on a series of extralegal missions to give him insight into the lives of the other death row inmates The chaplain crosses paths with a pole dancer white supremacists and a secret town full of outlaws that isnt on any official map Whats alway been a humdrum hypocritical life is suddenly an adventure When Holabi Mincos beautiful daughter Kinta enters the picture Richard is hooked He quickly finds himself drawn into a complicated plot to break her father out of prison It involves a slice of something called Deadnberried pie a shoot out on the prison parking lot and a disappearing act that looks too much like magic Who could possibly resist
