The Duck That Cried For God

Book 10. They called it salvation.He remembers the straps.Across the salt flats of a dead world a caravan floats-an antigravity procession carrying the broken and the unwanted toward treatment. The Autarchy calls them pilgrims. Chungho knows better. He's been one of them.Once remade in the Mantra Rooms where prayer became experiment Chungho now hunts the false gods who built their temples on human pain. When he learns that the caravan's cargo is not cargo but people-drugged numbered and erased-he boards it alone. Beneath the hum of its hovering engines he finds laboratories disguised as mercy and children sleeping in glass.To save them he must awaken the monster they made in him-the wings that burn when they open-and risk losing what little of his soul is left.A dark lyrical epic of vengeance and faith The Duck That Cried for God follows one man's war against the machines that stole belief itself... and his desperate prayer to stay human while delivering others from evil.