An Accidental Prophet: In our era of fake news, God is taking sides, and a modern-day Jonah must save the losers - Late Night comedians.
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781097614592
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 24 2019
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
This satirical work of fiction envisions God taking sides in our era of fake news warfare and the struggle of a modern-day Jonah to save the losers - Late-night comedians.
FROM THE BACK COVER
A former Late-night television host perishes in a biblically themed fashion. Although the comedian is widely mourned, no one seems to notice, or much less care about the underlying cause of death. But Tim Blake, a retired high school teacher, sees God's hand in the tragedy. In fact, Tim foresaw the comedian's demise and the means by which it would occur. As a second peculiar death follows the first, Tim and Mary, his wife, reluctantly come to believe he is a modern-day Jonah who must save the comics that have wandered into God's ground zero. Accurately forecasting the wrath of the Almighty via tweets, Tim becomes a social media sensation, is hunted by the FBI, and even appears on a Late-night television show to carry out his mission.
EXCERPT (c) REPRINTED BY PERMISSION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Tim's blood ran cold. The comic was stoned to death, he whispered hoarsely to his wife.
Don't you think you're being a bit overdramatic about all this?
Hardly. This is really weird, don't you think?
No, I do not, Mary answered. Sometimes, things happen for a reason, and sometimes, they just happen. People do have premonitions, you know.
Tim strongly disagreed. This was much more than a premonition. Saying some TV star will soon expire is a premonition. My seeing a deeply tanned Damien Grant lying in some kind of a rocky casket was a full-fledged technicolor vision of the future.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
An Accidental Prophet is Robert Lerner's first published work of fiction. He has also published, as part of Multi-Media Publications' Lessons from History Series, three non-fiction books that interweave Ancient Roman business practices with the modern workplace - Entrepreneurship and Ethics in Ancient Rome: The Management Lessons of Pliny the Younger, Career Turbulence: Ancient Lessons for Survival in the Modern Workplace and Customer Acquisition Strategies: Modern Lessons from Ancient Rome's Greatest Entrepreneurs. Lerner is the retired CEO of a multinational computer services company.
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