Josh Koehn

The Day God Slept Josh Koehn

The war between Heaven and Hell begins on the Seventh Day, when the rebellious angel Lucie discovers God in a deep sleep and realizes He has relinquished control of creation in one careless siesta. To expose God's secret, Lucie slits the throat of another angel and commits Heaven's first murder. Her punishment is severe. Lucie is stripped of her wings and banished for all of eternity. She plots her revenge in the fiery pit she now calls home, until one day a golden opportunity arrives. An unwitting winemaker named Judas has been mistakenly sent to Hell. With the winemaker's help, Lucie crafts a devious plan to expose God's secret and corrupt His only son, Jesus. This dark twist on the Bible, by turns absurd and reflective, provides a humorous new take on the life of Jesus and the lengths angels and men will go to be proven right - even when everything seems preordained to end poorly. The Day God Slept is the debut novel of Josh Koehn, an award-winning journalist in the San Francisco Bay Area.