The Cross & the .357 Magnum

The Cross & the .357 Magnum by Philip T. Hicks is a raw, riveting testimony of one mans fall and redemption. Born into church but swept away by rebellion, Hicks eventually finds himself facing a maximum-security prison sentence of life plus fifteen years. While recuperating from a gunshot wound and awaiting trial, he encounters Jesus, chooses truth over cover-up, and is miraculously freed when his sentence is vacated. With courageous honesty, Hicks invites readers into the darkness of his past the .357 Magnum that shattered his femur becomes a metaphor for the lethal power of sin and leads them out into the light of grace, accountability, and hope.