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The Jehovah Contract

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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.

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.

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

If I were trapped on a desert island I would not want this book; I would want a way off of the stinking island. However if one wanted to give a gift that humanistically dealt witha few of the ultimate questions of religion, philosophy, and human existance and was an entertaining easy read, they should give this book.

It is, in part, a dective novel set in the very near future containing humor, science fiction, philosophy, and magic. Anyone who enjoys science fiction or fantasy or philosophy or Mike Hammer/Philip Marlowe stories and does not enjoy this novel should be stuck on that stinking desert island.

I have one phrase to describe this book. You'll have to decide which way you take it.

A novel concept, brilliantly executed.