As I left the South Gateway parking garage last week after Coach T's book signing, I passed a parked window van squatting low in the back end. The headlights were aiming towards the sky and it was filled floor to ceiling with white boxes. When I noticed the Illinois plates in the corner of my eye, I hit the brakes and backed up. Tyndale House Publishers is in Illinois! Sure enough. I peeked in the van from my drivers window and on the side of the boxes was stamped "Winners Manual".

Four boxes across I would guess, each stacked four columns high to the ceiling, and probably four or five rows of that. Maybe 50 books in each box? $25 a book. You do the math. I quickly looked around for the men with the machine guns, hoping they weren't trigger happy about this guy backing his vehicle up to the van! Seeing none, I shook my head in amazement and headed on my way. The next day I would read in the paper the rest of the story, how they ran out of books at the morning signings, and had another dispatched a truck that very day. Apparently, it had arrived without being hijacked!