The Miracle Adjuster
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Publisher Description
The thing about the truth is; it doesn’t get out much...
Colin Jekyll is an ‘Events Manager’. And a liar. Colin’s real name is Frank Canon, and his real job title is ‘Reality Enforcer’. And the lies don’t stop there; they only get bigger.
Canon works for the Agency, protecting the status quo. A multilingual lone wolf with an unreliable history and a fear of flying, Canon covers up continuity errors; those inexplicable events most other people call ‘miracles’. He adjusts outbreaks of clairvoyance and drunken weather, weeping statues and spontaneous dancing plagues before they become common knowledge, and before people begin to panic, because people’s faith in consensus reality needs to be enforced.
Fortunately for Frank and the Agency, most people are naturally suspicious of the truth.
Customer Reviews
A genre-bending satirical romp
Frank Canon teams up with an undercover journalist named Epiphany Smith and an inept terrorist named Rashid (the underwear bomber) to investigate a ‘seriously out of place artefact’ unearthed in Virginia. They are introduced to Chuck Redstar and the amber jam jar; ‘proof’ that people were making jam jars when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Canon employs bogus test results, red-herrings, rumour grenades and old-fashioned scepticism in his efforts to debunk the jam jar.
The Miracle Adjuster is a postmodern satire (reminiscent of Douglas Adams and Chuck Palahniuk) on the reinforcement of the status quo by the church, state and media and a rebuttal of the ideas that the person who says ‘I don’t know’ is inevitably more ignorant than the one who always has an answer, that the unknowable and unexplainable are necessarily unsafe and untrue and that faith and religion are fundamentally the same thing. This is a funny, thought-provoking and original novel.