Day of Judgment

by Frank Rich

The damned, the dirty and the depraved call theconfines of inner-city hell home. It's a thrivingnucleus of spiritual neon temples withvideo preachers, street-corner messiahs and coin-fed confession machines, ghetto prophets, whiskeyevangelists and vendors selling salvation in a box.

Jake Strait has always placed his faith in the devil.But when a gorgeous blond angel hires him toinfiltrate a religious sect and locate her twin sister,he decides to give a new and improved god a try.Hired to turn the sect's team of bumbling soldiersinto a hit squad, he plans to lead the attack againstthe city's criminal subculture.

BUT WHEN THE ROBES OF SPIRITUAL RIGHTEOUSNESSFALL AWAY TO REVEAL A WILD-EYED PROPHET ON THEMAKE, JAKE's GOT TO PAWN HIS TICKET TO PARADISEAND GET HIS CONSCIENCE OUT OF HOCK.

349 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published December 22, 1993

About the author

Frank Rich is a columnist (and former chief theater critic) for The New York Times who focuses on American politics and popular culture. His column ran on the front page of the Sunday arts and leisure section from 2003 to 2005; it now appears in the expanded Sunday Week in Review section.

Reviews

[Deidre · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was really good. Book 2 had seemed a bit draggy, but picked up towards the last 3rd. But this one never dragged at all. Too bad only one left. So many lists show that there are five books, but there are not. I know because I bought all "five" only to discover that two were the same book.