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    The Acolyte

    By Nick Cutter

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    Jonah Murtag is an Acolyte on the New Bethlehem police force. His job: eradicate all heretical religious faiths, their practitioners, and artefacts. Murtag’s got problems—one of his partners is a zealot, and he’s in love with the other one. Trouble at work, trouble at home. Murtag realizes that you can rob a citizenry of almost anything, but you can’t take away its faith. When a string of bombings paralyzes the city, religious fanatics are initially suspected, but startling clues point to a far more ominous perpetrator. If Murtag doesn’t get things sorted out, the Divine Council will dispatch The Quints, aka: Heaven’s Own Bagmen. The clock is ticking towards doomsday for the Chosen of New Bethlehem. And Jonah Murtag’s got another problem. The biggest and most worrisome . . . Jonah isn’t a believer anymore.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChiZine Publications
    Release dateApr 21, 2015
    ISBN9781771483292
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    Nick Cutter

    Nick Cutter is the author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller The Troop (which is currently being developed for film with producer James Wan), The Deep, Little Heaven, and The Handyman Method, cowritten with Andrew F. Sullivan. Nick Cutter is the pseudonym for Craig Davidson, whose much-lauded literary fiction includes Rust and Bone, The Saturday Night Ghost Club, and, most recently, the short story collection Cascade. His story “Medium Tough” was selected by author Jennifer Egan for The Best American Short Stories 2014. He lives in Toronto, Canada.

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      A dystopian future in which Judeo-Christianity is the One True Faith and all other non-confirming faiths are illegal. Anyone caught breaking that law is subject to anything from The Cure (a lobotomy) to execution.The Acolyte was an extremely dark reading experience. Multiple times I had to skip over scenes that were just too graphic. And it definitely had too much animal violence, which Cutter's novels seem prone to. I think, maybe, if he'd toned down the violence a smidgen the story (or message?) would've had more of an opportunity to shine. Behind all the bloody shock and awe was a scary vision indeed.3 stars