The Second Coming

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What to expect

God takes a look at the Earth around the time of the Renaissance and everything looks pretty good – so he takes a holiday. In Heaven-time this is just a week’s fishing trip, but on Earth several hundred years go by. When God returns, he finds all hell has broken loose: world wars, holocausts, famine, capitalism and ‘fucking Christians everywhere’. There’s only one thing for it. They’re sending the kid back.

JC, reborn, is a struggling musician in New York City, trying to teach the one true commandment: Be Nice! His best chance to win hearts and minds is to enter American Pop Star. But the number one show in America is the unholy creation of a record executive who’s more than a match for the Son of God ... Steven Stelfox.

Critics Review

  • Believe me, this book is going to cause one almighty stink…Deeply, intelligently satirical. In lesser hands it could easily have become a crass rant. Yet Niven provides hilarious, perceptive entertainment…Only the truly ignorant will take offence. But then they usually do

    The Mirror, Book of the Week ****

  • An entertaining novel…In the midst of it all, there is compassion, and insight into the way the impulse for truth can lead to dark acts indeed… Bloody funny

    Independent on Sunday

  • Consistently entertaining…Behind all the curses and the gags, orthodoxy reigns in Niven’s MTV-style gospel as Jesus battles oppression, hypocrisy and the satanic forces of Simon Cowell – sorry, “Steven Stelfox”. Consistently funny and smart…Trendy vicars might even consider distributing it after their Easter sermons

    Independent

  • John Niven tore the music industry apart with his coruscating debut novel and now he’s back again, along with Kill Your Friends obscene anti-hero Steven Stelfox, to get stuck into religion and celebrity culture… the story rattles along at a breakneck speed, delivering wonderful abuse at all and sundry

    The Big Issue

  • A humorous, quirky take on what Jesus would do, think and be if he was on Earth today

    Bookbag

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