Eternal Footman

<p><i>The Eternal Footman</i> completes Morrow's darkly comic trilogy about God's untimely demise. With God's skull in orbit competing with the moon a plague of death awareness spreads across the Western hemisphere. As the United States sinks into apocalypse two people fight to preserve life and sanity. One is Nora Burkhart a schoolteacher who will stop at nothing to save her only son Kevin. The other is the genius sculptor Gerard Korty who struggles to create a masterwork that will heal the metaphysical wounds of the age. A few highlights: a bloody battle on a New Jersey golf course between Jews and anti-Semites; a theater troupe's stirring dramatization of the Gilgamesh epic; and a debate between Martin Luther and Erasmus. Morrow also gives us his most chilling villain ever: Dr. Adrian Lucido founder of a new pagan church in Mexico and inventor of a cure worse than any disease.</p>