When Henry loses his lucrative job at Global Haulage Company, it sets in motion a series of catastrophic events around a failed transportation business and a false prophet that breaks his home. The events spiral dangerously around two stunning and inexplicable lookalikes and their common lover, and lead to another broken home and a crazy quest for sex that claims the life of their lover. Helen, Henry’s wife and one of the lookalikes, must walk back to her marriage. Can she go the distance even with the help of the Godly Stranger?
Down-to-earth and wise-cracking, Godly Stranger x-rays the vulnerability of employees who get caught in corporate reorganisations, and who fail to plan against sudden career upheavals. It provides serious lessons in poor retirement planning and entrepreneurial ventures that are rashly thought out. The novel also indicts a society taken hostage by a plethora of false prophets and pastors, who feed on the gullibility of hapless citizens.
Godly Stranger offers one consolation: despite the harsh realities of life on the planet, there is solace to be found in the secret hands of God at work in the lives of those who sincerely trust Him. The story does not only elicit the reader’s sympathy for Helen and Henry as they take the bitter pills of life, it gives hope to all who face hard times.
A civil engineer with several Fellowships, Chris is a public speaker and publisher of six non-fictional books. Godly Stranger is his first foray into fictional writing.