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The Second Coming

By: John Niven
Narrated by: Nick Landrum
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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.

©2015 John Niven (P)2015 Random House AudioBooks Literature & Fiction Heartfelt Comedy
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A blackly funny ‘what if’ novel that is also a savage commentary on contemporary American society. Deftly tackling the big topics of religion, fame and violence, John Niven is such a clever and insightful writer and it’s brought perfectly to life by narrator Nick Landrum.

Just brilliant!

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