The Tumultuous Times of Jesus in the 21st Century is the satiric tale of a God grown angry and impatient with modern day moneylenders who have made Christianity unrecognizable and turned it into the indispensable component of the Republican Party's extreme rightwing. You won't believe what God and His Son decide to do about it.
This "wholly engaging romp through the Second Coming" is part adventure, part religious thriller, part political mystery. Its hero is a Camel-smoking and Jack Daniels-drinking Jesus whose disciples include a beautiful Asian hooker, an agnostic political consultant, the world's former top supermodel and the nation's first woman/Latina/Native American presidential candidate. Their adversaries? Only the world's richest televangelist and his henchman, an ex-marine assassin. It's funny, it's sexy and it will make you think.
About The Tumultuous Times of Jesus in the 21st Century, these writers say:
"I think the book is going to do very well. Liberals are going to love it." --Pulitzer Prize winner Norman Mailer "A fun read. I cheered all the way. Picaresque form and so always on the go and with the attendant lessons, ironic but broad." -Dennis Schmitz, Sacramento's first Poet Laureate "God's word has been misinterpreted in a corrupt world and He's not happy about it, so He sends His only son to steer people back toward the right track. Except it's not 33 A.D. any longer, it's 2003 and Jesus is still - gasp! - hanging out with hookers. Luke Breit has pulled off a wholly engaging romp through the Second Coming - only this time instead of a hardened tax collector, His best buddy is an agnostic political consultant. With a great deal of sly humor that the author uses well to serve his very serious observations, and some unexpectedly moving sweetness, the story moves along at a crisp clip to an end t
