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Title: Hell disguised as a novel.
Review: This "novel" is largely a waste of time. Characters are poorly developed, almost cartoon-like, melodramatic stereotypes. Consider the image of the good guy getting shot in the heart, and then taking 14 minutes (or 22 pages) to die, all the while orating about the grief of living, the ultimate success of "the good", the Grace of the Lord, and the price of chopped liver. Tahn suffers to a degree that becomes farcical, all the while denying and seeking God, while the "Lady" twit who inspires him comes across as a religious bozo. The plot is a crude morality play, fit for 6th graders, maybe, if one wishes to damage their psyches. Serious Christian questions are answered only on the elementary school level, yet manage to resolve the deepest mysteries and unbelievable suffering of the characters. Pure melodrama, but not particularly interesting. I propose that the greatest suffering about Tahn will be on the part of the reader.Caveat emptor.
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