The Past Never Dies (M. R. Lovelace)

Revenge was all that was on Jack's mind as he drove back home for his murdered father's funeral. An eye for an eye, a death for a death, isn't that what the good book says. But it's hard to exact revenge when the police have no suspects and no motive. So Jack turned his anger to Pastor Boyd and his church. They had already stolen his mother and his girlfriend, and now they claimed his tavern-owning, beer drinking father had become a Christian also. When his father's home is ransacked, and it comes to light he had recently received a package from a long-dead Vietnam War buddy, things begin to point to the past and a possible cover-up. Thrown into this volatile mix is Charlie, a juvenile delinquent looking for her own kind of justice. With the Police stymied at every turn, and the clues gradually pointing to a group of vets on the West Coast, it becomes clear they must somehow work together to catch the killers if they are to be brought to justice.