The Second Coming of Jesse James - Tapa blanda

During the Great Depression, the common people - dispossessed of their farms, homes, and livelihoods - romanticized those who operated outside the system: Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd. In "The Second Coming of Jesse James," these same common people hail Jack Carpenter - moonshiner, hell raiser, and third-rate bank robber - as a latter day Jesse James sent to deliver them from the scourge of banks and other "vested interests". When Jack tries to live up to his own myth, he sets out on a path leading to both tragedy and redemption.

Herder has co-written a humor book ("Nuclear Chic") published by Pinnacle Books; his short stories have been published in "St. Louis University Magazine," "The Pine Tree Review," "tattoohighway," and "AntiMuse" (which voted his story "One of the Year's Best"). He has also worked with several Los Angeles production companies developing screenplays. Two scripts ("Frog" and "Frogs"), which he co-wrote, were produced by Wonderworks for PBS. "The Second Coming of Jesse James" was a finalist in Wilkes-Barre University's James Jones Novel Contest.