The Management Style of the Supreme Beings
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'Highly amusing ... Eloquently snarky prose' - Publishers Weekly
'Inventively entertaining ...make you both laugh out loud and stop and think' - SFX
When the Supreme Being and his son decide that being supreme isn't for them any more, it's inevitable that things get a bit of a shake-up.
It soon becomes apparent that our new owners, the Venturi brothers, have a very different perspective on all sorts of things. Take Good and Evil, for example. For them, it's an outdated concept that never worked particularly well in the first place.
Unfortunately, the sudden disappearance of right and wrong, while welcomed by some, raises certain concerns amongst those still attached to the previous team's management style.
In particular, there's one of the old gods who didn't move out with the others. A reclusive chap, he lives somewhere up north, and only a handful even believe in him.
But he's watching. And he really does need to know if you've been naughty or nice.
What would happen if good and evil were replaced with a more dynamic system based on sound economic principles? Find out in Tom Holt's wickedly funny new comic novel!
Books by Tom Holt:
Walled Orchard Series
Goatsong
The Walled Orchard
J.W. Wells & Co. Series
The Portable Door
In Your Dreams
Earth, Air, Fire and Custard
You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps
The Better Mousetrap
May Contain Traces of Magic
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages
YouSpace Series
Doughnut
When It's A Jar
The Outsorcerer's Apprentice
The Good, the Bad and the Smug
Novels
Expecting Someone Taller
Who's Afraid of Beowulf
Flying Dutch
Ye Gods!
Overtime
Here Comes the Sun
Grailblazers
Faust Among Equals
Odds and Gods
Djinn Rummy
My Hero
Paint your Dragon
Open Sesame
Wish you Were Here
Alexander at World's End
Only Human
Snow White and the Seven Samurai
Olympiad
Valhalla
Nothing But Blue Skies
Falling Sideways
Little People
Song for Nero
Meadowland
Barking
Blonde Bombshell
The Management Style of the Supreme Beings
An Orc on the Wild Side
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This extremely entertaining standalone from Holt (The Good, the Bad and the Smug) is a fine example of his signature brand of adventure-farce, trolling his favorite targets of Christianity and capitalism. God, aka Dad, has been working since the Creation, and he's never won a single management award. His son Jay's a good kid, but second son Kevin is a millennial bust. Uncle Nick is on permanent vacation from Hell, leaving hapless human lieutenant Bernie in command. On present-day Earth, Jersey Thorpe, a burned-out Indiana Jones wannabe, ponders the unmistakable Christmas pudding he's found in an Egyptian tomb. Dad's existential ennui appears resolved when the Venturi brothers make a sweet offer, backed by an impeccable record of supremacy among the Andromedan worlds. The new religious regime ditches Dad's outmoded repentance-and-prayer shtick for pop-up accountants demanding cash. Good behavior is suddenly rife, but oddly enough, no humans are happy. Also, where in the mortal realm has Kevin gotten to? The many story threads are slight but well-woven, and the brief chapters are dense; Holt's verbal acuity simply does not falter. Though never above taking an obvious gag when it works, Holt bends each plotline in an unexpected direction, building a story that satisfies on multiple levels.
