Apocalypse: the Ballad of Avery Mann

by Jon J. Cardwell

The past haunts him. The present shames him… and the future awaits with fractal fire.
If you’ve ever looked into the mirror to see your head explode, you can relate to Avery Mann’s daily struggles.

It’s the young Mann’s eighteenth birthday, and already shaping up to be the third worst day of his existence. It will take a miracle to turn Avery’s life around; and providence thrusts him forward into the past with the help of the unlikeliest of influences…

…a beautiful girl, full of grace;
…a gifted boy, crippled with cerebral palsy;
…a Jewish aunt with hugs and delicious borscht;
…a holocaust survivor with an opinion on everything;
…a smarmy angel with a famous voice;
…and a faith-healer with a sinister agenda.

Welcome to a contemporary, somewhat dystopian, and occasionally emotional apocalypse.

Yet, what looks to be the end, is only the beginning…. Will Avery Mann survive?

77 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 2, 2020

About the author

Jon J. Cardwell is a wretched sinner saved by God's free and sovereign grace. He lives in Ninilchik, Alaska with his wife, Lisa. He is the pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Ninilchik after having ministered as pastor of Sovereign Grace Baptist Church in Anniston, Alabama, a missionary and as a missionary-pastor in the Philippines, California, and remote bush villages in Alaska.

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He is the author of TO BE A PILGRIM as well as the Amazon bestseller, CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED and several other books. Jon has also held the office of vice-chairman of the national Sovereign Grace Baptist Fellowship (2009-11), and was elected as chairman on September 13, 2011 and reelected in September 2012.

Jon spent several years in the Navy, most markedly as a U.S. Navy diver. He was medically discharged in 1993 after a decade and a half of service. He reached his highest paygrade, Chief Petty Officer (E-7), in 1989.