God Fearing Man
God Fearing Man is the epic story, inspired by the true criminal exploits of one Herbert Emerson Wilson.
Wilson was a Boer War hero, furniture salesman, ordained Baptist minister, master criminal and reluctant philanthropist.
Based on his biography, I stole $16,000,000, Wilson’s story ranges from Canada to South Africa. From the Americas North and South, to Europe. Past the First World War and into the Roaring Twenties.
The story charts the complex, conflicted character’s descent from an upstanding god-fearing minister, to broken, retired criminal, seeking penance for a life largely spent on the wrong side of the law.
Wilson was simply unique: he treated crime as a science and studied it accordingly. August Vollmer, President of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, said of him:
“Herbert Emerson Wilson, with his syndicated crime methods, represented the highest peak that criminality has ever attained in this country or any other.
No one, either before or since Wilson, has ever reached such a degree of criminal perfection.”
Accolade indeed for a man who had received similarly generous acclaim from his church for his preaching...
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Emmy-award winning writer Bob Jones teams up with the shark from Jaws!
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