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SOMETHING ASTONISHING IS HEADING OUR WAY . . .

A massive asteroid hurtles toward Earth and humanity is braced for annihilation – but the end doesn’t come . . .

Because it's not an asteroid . . . it’s a three-mile-tall alien figure that comes to earth outside Little Springs, Nebraska. Dubbed ‘the giant’, its body apparently pierced by a blade, its arrival transforms this quiet red-state farm town into a top-secret government research site and major metropolitan area, flooded with soldiers, scientists, government agents, bureaucrats, spies, criminals, conspiracy theorists . . . and a killer.

As the sheriff of Little Springs, David Blunt thought he’d be keeping the peace among the same people he’d known all his life, not breaking up chanting crowds of conspiracy theorists, busting drugs gangs, dealing with doomsday cults, struggling to control town hall meetings about immigrants, and invaders and the construction of a mosque. Or trying to catch a cunning and seemingly untraceable killer.

As the brutal, bizarre murders strike ever closer to home, Blunt – increasingly troubled by strange, unsettling dreams of a cosmos in chaos – throws himself into the hunt for a killer who seems somehow connected to the Giant.

With bodies piling up and tensions in Little Springs mounting, he realizes that in order to find the answers he needs, he must first reconcile his traditional sense of things with the town, and the world, he now lives in – before it’s too late.

'A gripping blend of sci-fi mystery and small-town suspense . . . an unforgettable ride.'
RON HOWARD, Academy Award-winning director

'I felt slapped awake by Godfall’s brilliant conceit . . . thought-provoking, awe-inspiring, and visionary.'
BENJAMIN PERCY, writer of Marvel's Wolverine

'Engrossing, genre bending . . . will have you staying up long past your bedtime.'
KARIN SLAUGHTER

© Van Jensen 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

Critics Review

A gripping blend of sci-fi mystery and small-town suspense, Godfall delivers an unforgettable ride.
RON HOWARD, Academy Award-winning director
I felt slapped awake by Godfall’s brilliant conceit and the profound change witnessed in a small town that suddenly finds itself on a global - and even cosmic - stage. This book is thought-provoking, awe-inspiring, and visionary but always grounded in human particulars.
BENJAMIN PERCY, writer of Marvel's Wolverine
Engrossing, genre bending . . . will have you staying up long past your bedtime.
KARIN SLAUGHTER, internationally bestselling crime novelist
A fresh and surprising genre mashup, bringing a laconic small-town sheriff together with a crash-landed alien and a series of brutal killings, beautifully interweaving otherworldly images and naturalistic details of rural Nebraska life. Van Jensen is a terrific writer, and I was under the book’s strange and extraordinary spell from start to finish!
DAN CHAON, author of Sleepwalk
The genre-mashup novel of my dreams. With breathtaking imagery and razor-sharp prose, Van Jensen gives us a story that is part alien sci-fi, part mystery - with a doomsday cult, a serial killer, and a dash of Sandhill cranes - all set against the beautiful backdrop of rural Nebraska.
ERIN FLANAGAN, Edgar Award–winning author of Deer Season and Blackout
Van Jensen delivers the sense-bending strange in this tale of mystery and wonder.
GARY PHILLIPS, author of One-Shot Harry
Godfall blends rural noir with a daring dose of sci-fi to create something wholly new and engaging. Van Jensen comes in hot with his [fiction] debut.
ALEX SEGURA, author of Secret Identity and Miami Midnight
It isn’t easy to infuse magical realism with grit, but Godfall does it with panache. I was under Van Jensen’s spell from the first chapter. A striking debut novel from one of my favourite writers.
KEVIN MAURER, author of Damn Lucky

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