Duza's "Jesus Freaks" Merges Zombie, Conspiracy Genres

Andre Duza's zombie novel Jesus Freaks is more than a work of horror fiction. A strange hybrid of horror, conspiracy, and science fiction it is best placed with underground classics such as Moorcock's "Jerry Cornelius Chronicles," Wilson and Shea's "Illuminatus! Trilogy," and Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49."

Jesus Freaks is Duza's vision of the not-to-distant future, in which the dead have come back to life, eating the flesh of the living. A mysterious plane crash throws detective Philip Makane into the center of events which spiral further and further out of control from there on. Add to that the ceaseless rainfall of what DNA testing reveals to be human blood - the arrival of two individuals who possess super human powers; they who both claim to be Jesus. Complicating things further is a demonic entity named "Boring," which is determined to corrupt and invert the survivors' efforts to maintain - much less - restore those aspects of human existence which are decent and noble.

Published by Deadite Press, Jesus Freaks is a worthwhile read. Thoroughly developed, believable characters move through a tightly controlled, fast-paced plot which takes place in setting which is graphically terrifying and strangely fascinating and enticing.