American Savior

Into a country divided by partisan politics, into a world plagued by hatred and war, at a time when it seems that everyone and no one has a solution to the problems that consume humankind, there suddenly appears someone who can rise above the madness, someone with knowledge and power, someone with a finely tuned sense of the ridiculous - someone, in short, who can make it right. And thus we finally have an answer to the long-simmering question, "What would Jesus do?" Roland Merullo's novel American Savior posits an inspired "what if" scenario: What if Jesus, alarmed at how the earth's most powerful nation has lost its spiritual footing and dismayed at how his own teachings have been distorted - used by politicians and religious zealots to turn love into hatred and faith into a call to arms - returns and announces that he is running for president of the United States? What if he becomes a third-party candidate, is heralded as the Son of God, and not only threatens to disrupt the status