"Continues influencing the reader's thoughts for a long time afterwards.... About a zillion things I wish I'd thought of first.... This book's going to start as a cult favorite ... in much the same way Tolkien's work or Herbert's Dune have."
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Self-consciously styled after a hard-boiled detective novel, this is a most unusual and entertaining work of satirical SF. An assassin by trade, Dell Ammo works in a bombed-out section of Los Angeles that has been irradiated by a nuclear explosion. Terminally ill, Ammo is offered immortality by a millionaire evangelist if he will do one job: kill God. Accepting the assignment, Ammo embarks on a bizarre hunt through postnuclear L.A., assisted by Ann Perrine, a woman claiming to be an accountant but whose skills are considerably more interesting, and a nymphet with powerful, sexually telepathic abilities. In his search for God, Ammo encounters a powerful group of clerics eager to protect God, the source of their power, whether he exists or not. In other hands this could be pretentiously silly, but Koman carries it off with wit and energy.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"...a tightly written, well-paced suspense fantasy that succeeds on many levels.... a satire, adventure, and suspense novel told with great skill and interesting invention. The Jehovah Contract... is conceptually audacious to the max." -- Norman Spinrad
"The Jehovah Contract will surely be excoriated in religious and literary circles, but this damnation of God should be pondered objectively by both believers and nonbelievers. It is a good, thought-provoking effort that is that rarity in fiction: philosophy that entertains." -- Piers Anthony
"A most unusual and entertaining work of satirical SF." -- Publishers Weekly, 3/6/8
"Audacious ... a fine combination of logic and madness." -- Robert Shea
"Crammed with elements calculated to outrage nearly everyone... I hope some readers will enjoy it as much as I did." -- Don C. Thompson, Denver Post
"Explodes like a string of firecrackers ... The suspense never lets up ... I highly recommend it." -- Robert Anton Wilson
"I liked it." -- Larry Niven
"I wholeheartedly recommend this Mission Impossible/Philip Marlowe/Mike Hammer/John Milton Faith Opera." -- Philip Jose Farmer
"One of the most difficult assignments any writer can undertake is to imitate a famous style of this kind with both serious and comic intent. And Koman pulls it off beautifully. His book is a parody of a Chandleresque detective novel that can hold its own with Chandler and the best of his followers." -- San Jose Mercury-News, 5/17/87
"We need to have the genre shaken up from time to time; The Jehovah Contract does just that -- and does it better than most. Highly recommended." -- Charles de Lint, Fantasy Review
"The Jehovah Contract will surely be excoriated in religious and literary circles, but this damnation of God should be pondered objectively by both believers and nonbelievers. It is a good, thought-provoking effort that is that rarity in fiction: philosophy that entertains." -- Piers Anthony
"A most unusual and entertaining work of satirical SF." -- Publishers Weekly, 3/6/8
"Audacious ... a fine combination of logic and madness." -- Robert Shea
"Crammed with elements calculated to outrage nearly everyone... I hope some readers will enjoy it as much as I did." -- Don C. Thompson, Denver Post
"Explodes like a string of firecrackers ... The suspense never lets up ... I highly recommend it." -- Robert Anton Wilson
"I liked it." -- Larry Niven
"I wholeheartedly recommend this Mission Impossible/Philip Marlowe/Mike Hammer/John Milton Faith Opera." -- Philip Jose Farmer
"One of the most difficult assignments any writer can undertake is to imitate a famous style of this kind with both serious and comic intent. And Koman pulls it off beautifully. His book is a parody of a Chandleresque detective novel that can hold its own with Chandler and the best of his followers." -- San Jose Mercury-News, 5/17/87
"We need to have the genre shaken up from time to time; The Jehovah Contract does just that -- and does it better than most. Highly recommended." -- Charles de Lint, Fantasy Review
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Made me laugh, made me think.,
By NightKeith@aol.com (Keith Hartman) (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Jehovah Contract (Paperback)
The book is almost worth buying for the premise alone: a hitman is hired to take out God. The idea is an intriguing one (how do you kill a target you can't find?) and allows for some really interesting philosphical questions-- like, does the Big Guy deserve to get wacked or not? The book is written in the style of a Sam Spade novel, and I found myself laughing out loud at some of the narrator's wise-cracks. Any book that can make me both laugh and think is a winner.
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Hitman Kills God - Film at 11,
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What else can you put down in words that can't be told with a simple 5? Hitman hired to kill God. It catches you from the beginning. You laugh at the whacked humor. It takes turns you don't expect. It poses questions people don't want answered. It's more than a work of science fiction. It's a review about the nature of man and what drives him. Beliefs, philosophy, pyschology, religion...it's all there. Buy the book. It's well worth your time.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
God isn't dead--yet.,
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This review is from: The Jehovah Contract (Paperback)
When the World's Greatest Hit Man (real assassin of Kennedy, King and others) is diagnosed with cancer, a mysterious stranger makes him an offer he can't refuse; his cancer will be cured if he agrees to the Ultimate Contract--assassinate the Supreme Being. He's aided on his quest by a beautiful witch and a 14-year-old telepathic prostitute. Koman ingeniously explores human perception of God, religion and death as his hero tries to determine _how_ to fulfill his contract, and discovers that little of what we believe is what it seems
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