Book description
Desperately fleeing for his life, Brad Evans escapes Manhattan and
hides in a trailer in the country. There he writes an expos of
Phasmatia, the world's first great Internet religion, and its
megalomaniacal unholy messiah, Sky Fisher.
As one of the trio of ad men who schemed to concoct Phasmatia, Evans
certainly knows where all the skeletons are buried, and is ready to
tellprovided he manages to live long enough. His close friend and
co-conspirator, Stan Shiu, whose technical genius helped spark the
religion's rapid rise, is already dead.
The whistle-blower recounts the religion's genesis and its growth
from a get-rich-quick Dot-Com scheme to the Next Big Thing, spreading
like wildfire over the web and the planet. He also exposes the
corruption and power lust that festers at the top, even while his hope
for a potential new era of spirituality and faith burns brightly.
The events in this gripping digital-age novel could easily happen
tomorrow. Our wired age of social networks, virtual worlds, and media
manipulation is examined in the context of humankind's timeless need
for spiritual sustenance and divine hope.
DAN DOWHAL lives in Toronto and has degrees in engineering and
journalism. After 10 years with IBM exploring innovative reaches of new
computer technology and its social applications, he and his brothers
started their own computer-related business.
