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Juan Bautista loves his job in the Suicide Prevention Corps of America until the Shepardess, leader of the Christian American nation, forces him to spy on his partner suspected of heretical beliefs.
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It's Puerto Rico in the Year of Our Lord 2099, and it's good, good, good to be alive! Young Juan Bautista Lorca has his headphones tuned to W-G-O-D, listening to the Gospel Maniacs. His cup runneth over because he is driving a FreezVan for the Suicide Prevention Corps of America; his partner, Fabiola Munoz, rides shotgun. The SPCA soulsavers ice the bodies of the self-inflicteds and rush them, siren yowling, to the Saint Francis of Assisi Resurrection Center.Why, Juan Bautista wonders, is the suicide rate climbing? Maybe it's all the pollution and the slums. And why has Fabiola become so sour? Maybe she's one of those who believes in the Twin Messiahs. (That new heresy is the reason the beautiful Shepherdess had to suspend the Bill of Rights.)As the Christian American nation and its squads of Avenging Angels hunt for Emma and Noel (the Antichrist children), Juan Bautista begins seeing below the surface of things.
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