For sixteen-year-old Julie, just living with an alcoholic mother in a junkie-infested neighborhood was bad enough. But it took the discovery of her father's secret profession as a con artist for Julie's own downfall to begin. Julie agreed to become her father's partner so she could share in the profits. Together, father and daughter cooked up ingenious schemes and swindled their innocent victims out of thousands of dollars. By the time the police had caught up to them, Julie had become a demoralized young woman—and a hopeless drug addict. As she faced the possibility of a penitentiary sentence, Julie realized her future rested with the judge—or did it?
JULIE is the moving story of not only one broken life that was healed by the Word, but of an entire family. Find out how Julie, her mother, and her father were powerless, in the end, to resist the truth that set them free.
Content: faking a seizure, various con acts, alcoholism, drug abuse, physical violence
On page 153, Julie vomits into the toilet. Julie's mom uses some of the toilet water to wipe Julie's face and then flushes the toilet. Um, what? Julie's mom wipes Julie's face with the water in the toilet that has vomit in it? Besides the vomit, toilets are not clean. The water is contaminated by bacteria from waste material. This is revolting. Just, wow.
I enjoyed this book. It was interesting to read about the different types of con jobs.
After her first decent foster father died, sixteen-year-old Debbie took a familiar path back to the city streets where a rapid, downward spiral of degradation and despair awaited her. Lower and lower she sank into a life of prostitution, heroin addiction, physical abuse, and daily threats from the vicious pimp she'd hoped would protect her from a worse fate.
When two kind strangers appeared out of nowhere and offered Debbie a new life based on Jesus' teachings, it didn't take her long to accept it. Days after she received Christ into her heart, however, Harding, the pimp, tracked her down, gun in hand, and threated Debbie's life again. Had Debbie won salvation only to lose her life? This moving story contains a dramatic, surprise twist that will thrill and inspire you and, above all, prove to you that with God there is always a second chance.
Content: prostitution, assault, drug use
This was one of the books I read over six months ago, so I can't remember much of the content. Here's a great review which gives many funny details.
Debbie by John Benton
Debbie was one of the first few Benton books that I read. I enjoyed this book and the others that I tried so much that I purchased the entire set.
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