God Groupie Apocalypse

"God Groupie Apocalypse" is a spiritual fantasy/borderline autobiography; some of it really happened, some is pure fantasy, and some of it I’m still not sure of. Psychologists say that if you talk to God that’s called prayer, but if God talks to you that’s schizophrenia. If that’s the case, I guess that makes me a foaming-at-the mouth, barking-at-the- moon, certifiable schizoid. I’ve also got a Looney Tunes guardian angel who fancies himself Gods own holy fool and looks like an eight-year-old Norman Rockwell poster boy but puts in a Humphrey Bogart, Philip Marlow, appearance when the mood takes him and has saved my ass wearing jade green armour and wielding a Jedi light sabre. Sound crazy? That’s just the autobiographical part.
Some years ago, I ended up by chance (?) at a Pentecostal revivalists meeting. I wasn’t a believer, more like a sceptical agnostic, but that didn’t make any difference to God who dropped me into the Grand Canyon of His mind and marinated me there for almost 24 hours. In fact, on a deep level I’m still marinating there. My Christian brethren call this being “saved”. I call it getting hammered like Saul on the road to Damascus. Why God saw fit to “save” a Christian persecuting, tax collecting scum bag like Saul or an intellectual skeptic like me when there are so many others who are more deserving and want it more is just one of the many questions I was left with, like the Big One, why does evil exist in a universe whose default state is absolute love?
God Groupie Apocalypse started out as an attempt to answer these questions but quickly took a comic detour through the end times of a fallen world where a reluctant spiritual warrior and his guardian angel are on a mysterious mission from God and forced to confront autistic preppers selling explosive dog chow, shape-shifting zombies on a picnic, a hell hound named Boris, and a geriatric witch in high heeled sandals and Lolita sunglasses, and they are all out to barbecue one reluctant holy warrior and his friends before they find out what their real mission is.
The book turned into a kind of quirky parable with many answers to my spiritual questions scattered through it. This combination of action adventure, and spiritual truth telling is what makes books like Dan Brown’s “Da Vinci Code” so popular. while readers of Lorna Byrne’s “Angels in My Hair” or Neal Donald Walsch’s “Conversations with God” will certainly find much that resonates with and at times questions their spiritual views but always leavened with a dose of tongue-in-cheek humor. As the saying goes, “A little bit of sugar helps the medicine go down.”
Anyone interested in a mystery novel with all the added twists and turns and red herrings of an Agatha Christie novel will find this book irresistible. But it is not only a mystery novel and a book of religious revelation but an action-packed adventure filled with wacky humor, quirky characters and a self-doubting hero who has trouble living up to the role God has laid on him.
I have previously published a science fiction novel, “Halfling Human” on Smashwords.