Anne Rice's most ambitious work - a novel, based on the gospels, about the life of Jesus. He comes into the world, child of a virgin birth, celebrated by angels singing to shepherds, and is visited by magi from the east. He is God and Man and grows up to perform miracles - healing the sick, driving out demons, feeding a multitude with only a few loaves and fishes. He can walk on water. He is cruelly executed, but rises from the dead, coming back to his frightened followers to start a religion that will, within two and a half centuries, encompass the entire Western world. All this - accomplished by God - is the material of the novel.