Alone in his jail cell Christian receives a midnight visitation from a beautiful stranger. She is the messiah and tasks him with solving a series of spiritual mysteries in order to save his immortal soul...Stirred by a sense of divine purpose, Christian embarks on the twelve stages of his Borgesian task, encountering along the way a wise rabbi, a vengeful prison guard, an impish pyromaniac and the eternally tormented residents of hell. As his odyssey unfolds, Christian is absorbed into a metafictional labyrinth, leaving the reader to muse over the interconnectedness of language, belief, truth and artifice. Gerald Weaver's debut is an accomplished work of fiction and a dreamlike pastiche of some of the world's most iconic literary works; Don Quixote meets Dante's Inferno and The Merchant of Venice in a rural minimum security prison in Kentucky, USA.