As his job disappears and his marriage dissolves, Marcus Hatchet faces a meltdown under the weight of years spent denying his instincts. When an opportunity to live on his own terms finally arrives, Hatchet wagers friendship, fatherhood, freedom, and sanity to change his world. He will take from those who have everything in order to gain something he can call his own. A free and honorable life. Marcus Hatchet, a self-medicating womanizer, lives on the edge of Middle America, in the plains of Texas where the cattle outnumber the people and the stark lines of morality, politics, and landscape travel unhindered the arrow of time into oblivion. Yet, when Hatchet robs the local mega church in a daring heist, he unleashes a maelstrom of growing pains reflected in the timely events of popular revolt across the country. None connected to his crime will ever be the same. His controlling ex-wife will confront her irreparable mistakes. His friends will question the meaning and value of loyalty. His accomplice will die. Destruction awaits a wealthy evangelist. A bizarre and elusive billionaire’s secrets revealed. Written in an unconventional style, refusing the reader a traditional treatment of dialogue, That Night Filled Mountain is novel that tumbles from scene to scene, blurring the subtle boundaries between poetry and prose, daring the reader to accept the speed and absurdity of life itself. Lifted from Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus, the title alludes to the truth of struggle. The story of Marcus Hatchet is the story of us all. No matter the choices made, no matter goals met or lost, life is the sum of endless struggle. There are no losers or winners, only volunteers.