But there's no one who loves Josh more - except maybe 'Maggie,' Mary of Magdala - and Biff isn't about to let his extraordinary pal suffer and ascend without a fight.

Even the considerable wiles and devotion of the Savior's pal may not be enough to divert Joshua from his tragic destiny. Verily, the story Biff has to tell is a miraculous one, filled with remarkable journeys, magic, healings, kung fu, corpse reanimations, demons, and hot babes. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years - except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work 'reminiscent of Vonnegut and Douglas Adams' (Philadelphia Inquirer). The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. Biff's version of the Jesus story emphasizes Jesus's goodness and innocence in a dog-eat-dog childhood world where Biff's role is to help his friend on the road to Messiah-hood.

Louis hotel room to crank out a new gospel, watched over by a TV-addicted angel. In 2001, Jesus brings back one of his boyhood friends-Levi, known fondly as Biff-from the dead and sets him up in a St. An audacious and irreverent novel.guaranteed deeply to offend.

Lamb by christopher moore