The Last Days (The Apocryphon of Joe Panther) - Andrew Masterson
"I am thoroughly dislikable. I know that. I am obnoxious, obscene, violent, lustful in my thoughts and bitter in my memories. I am untrustworthy, deceitful, opportunist, sly, brutal, usurious, unstable, uncharitable, and vengeance, always, is mine. I am capricious and heretic, appalling and cruel.
I am the Son of Man.
Joe Panther is a man with many secrets. Dangerous secrets. He is a private investigator. He is a drug dealer. He is a killer. And, most notably, he is the Messiah, fallen on hard times.
When a young woman is found crucified and decapitated in an inner-city church, the police suspect the local priest, a man with dark secrets of his own. The pries hires Panther to clear his name. Soon Panther becomes both the hunter and the hunted. Nothing is as it seems - not even, perhaps, Panther's own sense of self.
An apocryphon is a secret book. The Last Days is Joe Panther's secret book, a gospel noir, a gripping and disturbing tale of death, devilment, dark humour, and hard-boiled theology."
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I enjoyed this book - a strong thriller, however those of you with religious leanings may find it somewhat blasphemous due to the nature of the protagonist.
If you're open minded, I'd recommend giving it a read if you like thrillers.
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