Download or read book Messiah written by Gore Vidal and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Gore Vidal’s deft and daring blend of satire and prophecy, first published in 1954, eerily anticipates the excesses of Jim Jones, David Koresh, and the Heaven’s Gate suicide cult.-Print ed.