5.0 out of 5 stars A Frenetic Read, October 19, 2007 
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This review is from: Gideon's Fall: When You Don’t Have a Prayer, Only a Miracle Will Do (Paperback)
I will start this review by saying that I had a hard time deciding between four and five stars. The prevelance of misused homonyms and typos definitely detracts from the storytelling, but the dynamism and vigor of an unusual literary style eventually decided me in favor of five stars. In this hurly-burly view of the indeterminably close future, an improbable spritual innocent, an unlikely telekinetic spaceman, and an all too likely cast of surgically and genetically enhanced humans romp through a borderless world in which a militant Catholic church deploys fighting Jesuit castrati, Mormans mount a fighting rearguard action and a Jim Jones wannabe charges into the fray. Through it all a cast of bit players entertain with violent sidelights in a worlwide fight underground. Actually, in the end, Gideon, a consistant but secondary player does not actually fall, the denouement being as satisfying and odd as the rest of the novel.
The author's unusual dynamic style takes a chapter or two to acclimate to, but is well suited to the tale that he spins. This is one of those rare books that is one good editor away from the bookstands and bookstores
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