Can’t Stop the Cult.
In the five years following Barney’s introduction to Crystal, he’d changed. Where once there was a semi-criminal real-estate developer now stood a true believer. A messiah to the great unwashed masses, with platinum hair. When Barney came to Texas he had been on the verge of a mental breakdown, then he met Crystal. His outlook changed. Still money motivated, he had seen what the power of belief could do to transform a mob into a church.
On his way to receivership after the tosser Nigel embezzled so much of his cash, he was ready to give up.
Shortly after starting his fledgling church, it was also on the verge of failure. One year after the event, he received a substantial anonymous donation. The contribution came from South America. Barney always considered it a sig
