Dimensions
135 x 215 x 20mm
An explosive and provocative fictional re-examination of one of the Bible's most iconic figures.
Samson begins his narrative imprisoned by the Philistines, blind and chained, his hair shorn and his strength sapped. His story is one of the great feats of violence and even greater hubris. He believes that he has been sent by God to deliver his people from the heathens, and so strong is his conviction that his divine mission that his behaviour verges on the psychopathic. He kills Philistines and Canaanites, razing their crops and villages and wreaks murderous havoc whenever his God -- though more often he himself -- has been dishonoured. His delight in killing for God knows no bounds, and his Herculean speed and strength seems unstoppable, but then there's Dalila...
David Maine's superb third novel contemporizes this mythic tale and questions the kind of zealot who delights in killing for God, the kind of man who denies humanity to his victims. In Samson's egomaniacal bloodlust Maine holds the mirror up to the actions of those running our world now.
