Gabriel Horne, an acid-cocaine-rum-reefer-fueled legend of a journalist forNew Millennium Magazine, has been given the impossible assignment: He and his cohort, photographer Warren Belcher, "a huge, lumbering creaturepossessed with the energy of a particle accelerator and the willingness andcapacity to swallow inhuman quantities of everything," must compose afeature on the state of organized religion in today's America.Dressed in authentic burlap monk robes, the two quickly fall headfirst intoan adventure full of psychotic chainsaw-wielding serial killers, snakehandlers, faith healers, bluegrass pickers, blasphemy of every form, FOXjournalists, financial windfalls, tasers, rum, mescaline, love, the FBI, anda television show called 'So You Want to Be an Evangelist.'Greg Crites is as unique and remarkable a talent as you will ever find andhis fiction is a flat out blast to read. CRUSADE is an eighty-thousand-wordmissile of a novel that straps the reader in, hands them a first-classe-ticket to eternal damnation, and then keeps them laughing for the entiretrip.
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