God, it seems, still lives. His two-mile-long body -- comatose yet far from inert -- is reposing in Florida as the Main Attraction at Orlando's Celestial City USA. And now one Martin Candle, a small-time and sore-afflicted judge from Abaddon Township in Pennsylvania, proposes hauling the Corpus Dei to the World Court in The Hague to answer for history's injustices large and small.

In his quest to counter the world's great theodicies, Martin embarks on an astonishing journey through the mind of the Creator, where Lot's wife proves a most convenient way of adding salt to a margarita glass, early hominids vigorously debate Augustinian doctrine over jasmine tea, and Martin's alter ego, Job, keeps an eternal vigil atop his dung heap. Once the Trial of the Millennium has begun, Martin will understand why Abaddon is another name for Hell. God hunting simply is not a sport for amateurs.