THE BOOK OF ENO A raw, redemptive New Orleans story that will stay with you.

At forty-two, Eno is a force of nature — a former con man with a gift of gab and a past he can’t outrun. Now he’s trying to walk the straight path through seminary school, but the streets keep calling. When he meets Bernadette, the fiery radio preacher with wild hair and an even wilder heart, everything changes.

Together they launch a bold ministry aimed at the immigrants flooding into the city — using radio, television, and street-level faith to reach them before they’re deported. Miracles start happening. Lives are transformed. But Eno’s old life refuses to stay buried.

From dive bars and donut shops to a packed church altar where a little boy is raised and a hardened father finds forgiveness, The Book of Eno is a gritty, funny, and deeply moving novel about second chances, real redemption, and what happens when God uses the least likely man to shake an entire city.

Written in the unmistakable voice of New Orleans street life, this is not a polite church story. It’s loud, honest, profane at times, and filled with the kind of raw hope that only comes from someone who has been as far left as a man can go — and still found his way back.

Sometimes the biggest miracles start with the biggest sinners.

By Edward L. Betz Jr. — the New Orleans writer whose plays have been produced in New Orleans, New York, London, and Edinburgh. Losin' Mannie was translated into French and workshopped in the labs of Paris. Only His Knees was workshopped at Harvard by David Wheeler.