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A devastating appraisal of the policies of Russia's current head of state by the country's leading radical journalist.

About the Author

Known to many as 'Russia's lost moral conscience', Anna Politkovskaya was a special correspondent for the Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta and the recipient of many honours for her writing. She is the author of A Dirty War,A Russian Diary and Nothing But the Truth, a collection of her journalism. Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow in October 2006.

Reviews

A hero among hacks
*Guardian*

If you haven't done so yet, read Politkovskaya's books
*Independent*

Anna Politkovskaya refused to lie, in her work; her murder is a ghastly act, and an attack on world literature
*Nadine Gordimer*

We will continue to learn from her for years
*Salman Rushdie*

Her eye for detail was unfailing
*Financial Times*

In Hendra's debut novel (see his hit memoir, Father Joe), the Christian Far Right totally controls the U.S. government. The most powerful man in the country, then, is not the president but his spiritual advisor, the Rev. James Zebediah Sabbath, who has carved a political path of righteousness that's left countless lives destroyed. One of the Reverend's victims, Johnny Greco, is barely surviving this new church-state regime. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist has been reduced to working for an online newspaper of ephemeral reporting, for which he investigates the rumors of a new messiah wandering the East Coast performing miracles. His search leads to Jos? Francisco Lorcan Kennedy, or Jay, a quiet, unassuming man supported by disciples made up of society's lost and reviled. As Greco's reporting brings Jay's activities to the attention of the Reverend, the inevitable turn of events converts Greco's bitter cynicism into true faith. Hendra has created a darkly humorous and sincerely spiritual version of the Second Coming of Christ. Recommended for popular fiction collections. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 12/05.] Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

A hero among hacks * Guardian *
If you haven't done so yet, read Politkovskaya's books * Independent *
Anna Politkovskaya refused to lie, in her work; her murder is a ghastly act, and an attack on world literature -- Nadine Gordimer
We will continue to learn from her for years -- Salman Rushdie
Her eye for detail was unfailing * Financial Times *