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A man who has been given only a few months to live comes up for an idea for an unusual reality show. The show will pit representatives from the major religions against each other in a legal type competition. Oliver Finney is a judge and the person chosen to represent Christianity. He and some of the other contestents begin to suspect that there is a plot to kill one of them. Finney figures out a way to send coded messages to his assistant, Nikki Moreno (who Singer fans will recognize from his other books). Nikki and an assistant figure out how to crack the coded messages using "The Cross Examination of Jesus Christ" (A tie in book Singer wrote to go along with this one). But will they be able to convince the powers that be and help Finney stop the assasin before it's too late?
As far as a novel this was OK, it wasn't riveting or surprising but pretty solid. The religion aspect is of course very strong. The code thing would be cool if you are into that. ( )