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THE JEHOVAH CONTRACT Victor Koman's Prometheus Award-winning novel is back in a new edition A dying assassin is given one final assignment and one last chance for survival. The job: find God Almighty and destroy Him. The payment: eternal life. With the aid of a mysterious trio of women -- a beautiful lady gambler, an ancient Hollywood witch, and a telepathic hooker -- Dell Ammo breaches the gates of Heaven and Hell to pull the Cosmic Trigger. Before The DaVinci Code, before the Left Behind series, The Jehovah Contract set the standard for adventurous, over-the-edge religious fiction. Hard-boiled assassin Dell Ammo must become a harder-boiled detective in order to track down a God he doesn't even think exists. He enlists the reluctant assistance of blond bombshell Anne Perrine -- a woman with the uncanny ability to beat the gaming tables of the underworld metropolis Auberge. In that crime-ridden realm buried beneath the streets of Los Angeles, Dell discovers an even greater danger -- the religious conspiracy known only as the Ecclesia, dedicated to protecting God at any cost. In a climactic final battle worthy of Philip K. Dick at his most imaginatively paranoid, Dell Ammo clashes with the Almighty in all His varied forms, leading to a confrontation that rocks the universe. "A fascinating concept, imaginatively delivered." -- Ray Bradbury "A most unusual and entertaining work of satirical SF." -- Publishers Weekly "A novel of cosmic -- and comic -- proportions." -- Library Journal "Explodes like a string of firecrackers ... The suspense never lets up ... I highly recommend it." -- Robert Anton Wilson "THE JEHOVAH CONTRACT will surely be excoriated in religious and literary circles, butthis damnation of God should be pondered objectively by both believers and nonbelievers. It is a good, thought-provoking effort that is that rarity in fiction: philosophy that entertains." -- Piers Anthony "A parody of a Chandleresque detective novel that can hold its own with Chandler and the best of his followers." -- San Jose Mercury-News "Crammed with elements calculated to outrage nearly everyone...." -- The Denver Post "THE JEHOVAH CONTRACT... is conceptually audacious to the max." -- Norman Spinrad "Audacious ... a fine combination of logic and madness." -- Robert Shea "I wholeheartedly recommend this Mission Impossible/Phillip Marlowe/Mike Hammer/John Milton Faith Opera." -- Philip Jose Farmer Victor Koman's screenplay of The Jehovah Contract has been optioned for film. Ray Bradbury says of him, "Would that there were a dozen more writers like him in the field." Koman's short stories have appeared in publications such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy, and the anthologies Weird Menace, The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Post-Mortem, the Dark Destiny collections, and Free Space. He lives in southern California with his wife, Veronica, and daughter, Vanessa, as well as their cat, Kali. Koman graduated summa cum laude from Redlands University in 2001 as a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems. In 2004, he received his MBA from Pepperdine University. His weblog and bookstore are accessible via http: //www.komansense.com/
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老实说，这本书的结构设计真是令人拍案叫绝，它像一个精心编织的迷宫，每当你以为要找到出口的时候，作者总能巧妙地引入一个新的岔路口，让你不得不重新审视之前的一切判断。我特别喜欢作者处理叙事视角的方式，那种在不同角色的意识流之间游走，既保持了故事的客观性，又充分展现了主观体验的深度和广度。有些段落，光是文字的排列组合和句式的变化，就形成了一种近乎音乐般的节奏感，读起来有一种强烈的沉浸感，让人很容易忘记外界的一切。我发现自己对其中几位核心人物的动机分析了很久，他们做出的选择，在特定的伦理困境下，显得既残忍又无可奈何，这反映出作者对人性灰色地带深刻的洞察力。这本书的魅力在于，它不提供简单的答案，而是提出更深刻的问题，促使读者在合上书页之后，仍然在脑海中不断地辩论和思考。这本书的厚度并没有让人感到冗余，反而觉得每一页都承载着必要的重量和信息量。
这本书的开篇就带着一种引人入胜的神秘感，那种扑面而来的压抑气氛让人忍不住想一探究竟。作者似乎非常擅长营造场景，每一个细微的描写都像是一把精准的刻刀，将故事的底色刻画得淋漓尽致。我尤其欣赏作者对于人物内心世界的挖掘，那种复杂纠结的情感纠葛，读起来让人深有同感，仿佛自己也置身于那个特定的时空背景之下。叙事节奏的把控堪称一绝，时而紧凑得让人喘不过气，时而又放缓下来，给予读者充分的时间去消化那些潜藏的线索和未解的谜团。我常常在阅读过程中停下来，回味那些看似不经意的对话，因为我知道，在这样精妙的布局下，每一个字都可能埋藏着重要的伏笔。这本书的语言风格是一种独特的混合体，既有古典文学的韵味，又充满了现代叙事的张力，使得阅读体验非常丰富和立体。它不仅仅是在讲述一个故事，更像是在引导读者参与一场智力上的冒险，去拼凑那些散落在字里行间的碎片，最终构建出一个宏大而又精密的图景。
这本书最让我惊喜的是它对“宏大叙事”与“个体命运”之间关系的探讨。作者没有将焦点仅仅停留在表面的冲突上，而是深入挖掘了那些推动历史车轮的深层驱动力，并将这些宏大的力量投射到每一个普通角色的微观生活中。我特别欣赏作者在处理高潮部分时的克制与爆发力的完美平衡，那种酝酿已久的情感张力，在关键时刻如火山爆发般喷涌而出，但却又始终保持着一种优雅的节制感，避免了过度煽情。这本书的阅读体验是一种持续的探索，我时常需要回头重读之前的章节，去验证自己对某个角色的新理解，这种互动性极大地增强了阅读的乐趣。它需要的不仅仅是一目十行的快速浏览，而是需要慢下来，细细品味那些文字背后的潜台词和未言明的情绪。这本书在主题的复杂性上达到了一个非常高的水准，它迫使你走出舒适区，去面对那些难以直面的道德困境。
