God of a Thousand Faces

by Michael Falconer Anderson

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[Sharon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not my usual read but it has sat on my shelf for years, so I thought I’d give it a go. It was actually quite scary, and not nearly as silly as the cover made me think it would be. It begins with travel journalist Jack Law who ends up at a festival celebrating the child goddess Sedali in a remote Indian town called Srinwanat. Law is involved in an accident which sees his hire car plough into a bunch of worshippers killing quite a few, as well as the Sedali herself. Law gets helped out of India before he is lynched and then tries to settle back into his normal life in London again. But funny things begin to happen and many of his close friends start dying. It turns out the sedali is possessed by the malevolent God Dachari and when Law killed her the God possessed him. The wicked God was now killing everyone close to Jack – soon it would be his girlfriend Natalie it would be after. Luckily she goes to a couple of priests for help and they manage to exorcise the God from his body, but not before it manages to get into Althorpe the copper for the cycle to begin all over again.