“If I claim that an invisible giant hamster is hovering above me, I’m a lunatic. If I sense the spirit of God hovering above me, I’m simply a spiritual being.”

I wondered where this story was going to go for a while. The synopsis didn't seem as tightly focused as I was used to, and the first part of the book did seem to drag a little.

But then there's that scene which the author himself mentioned in the afterword, the deliciously dramatic “How can you be so goddamned sure!” screamed Quinn ... and of course, I won't spoil it. But, yes. The end of that part of the book said to me we're on track for a corker.

I was astonished by the bushman and the radio, I had to go and read that bit again. Nobody's ever managed to present me with an argument for there being more to us than is physically evident with such a meaningful analogy and it sort of bopped me over the head.

That aside, it was in Douglas Richard's typical style, easy to read, twisting and turning and with a desperate drive to save the world at the final hour. Grand stuff. I enjoy these works greatly.