"A street preacher in denim robes is among the first to notice them: the growing number of mental patients being released from the local facility onto the city's backstreets. The preacher's attempt to protect his flock and find out what's going on propels him into an epic quest, whereby he encounter
The revisionaries: a novel
β Scribed by A. R. Moxon
- Publisher
- Melville House
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 604 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 161219799X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
All is not boding well for Father Julius. . .
A street preacher decked out in denim robes and running shoes, a phony holy man for a misfit urban parish, Julius is a source of inspiration for a commnity that knows nothing of his scandalous origins.
But when a nearby mental hospital releases its patients to run amok in his neighborhood, his trusted if bedraggled flock turns expectantly to Julius to find out what's going on. Amid the descending chaos, Julius encounters a hospital escapee who babbles prophecies of doom, and the growing palpable sense of impending danger intensifies. . . as does the feeling that everyone may be relying on a fake preacher just a little too much.
Still, fake or no, Julius decides he must confront the forces that threaten his congregationβincluding the peculiar followers of a religious cult, the mysterious men and women dressed all in red seen fleetingly amid the bedlam, and an enigmatic smoking figure who seems...
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