In the course of saving reality and all humankind that resides therein, Barkley Bohner has accidentally founded a new world religion. Now sectarian violence is about to consume the world. In search of an answer, Barkley and his wife Sylvia enlist the aid of a lost Amazon tribe. Together, they journey into the belly of the snake where an eccentric God resides. The solution, as Barkley sees it, is to allow his legendary Victorian-era ancestor, Barkley Bohner Man of Action, to die when he was meant to have died, decades prior to his historical death. Sylvia isn't so sure. She needs to get to the bottom of the saga, which pivots around one of the great love stories of the ages, when our Man of Action meets the Wild West outlaw Betsy the Brave. Suddenly, the fates of two Barkleys, together with their current loves, become hopelessly tangled ...