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Selt

1960-1965   6.13
1990-1995    1.99
2005-2010
1.63

1.6

THE POWER OF TWO: FAITH, SEX, PEACE, DEATH
Martin Miller, a gay Christian with three children, is an outspoken pacifist from Texas. He takes early retirement from a successful law practice, and starts the Jesus Peace Group in Chiapas, Mexico. There, he discovers that his recital of Matthew 5 at his Mayan boyfriend’s funeral in 1968 has led to Catholic absolute pacifism. He falls in love with 22-year old Ángel Vázquez. They survive a massacre, in which evangelical Mayas kill 46 pacifists. A homophobic missionary attempts to murder Martin and Ángel, but he is killed by a missionary youth. The Mexican army arrives and is pushed out by pacifist Maya women. Martin and Ángel become world famous. Martin destroys the 1,600-year heresy of the Just War Theory. Ángel is murdered by a Mexican general. Martin smears Ángel’s blood and brains on the cardinal of Mexico, and passes out. He hides in Chiapas until he escapes to Xantiahk in SE Asia, with help from the aged queen’s grandson.

Masquerading as an English teacher in a refugee camp, Martin has a six-month affair with a gay teacher, followed by gay marriage to the 18 year old cousin, Pax. Martin rescues the royal family by publicly endorsing the new young king. When a famous Burmese pacifist dies, the king, Martin and Pax attend her funeral wake. Martin is killed on a general’s orders.

Punctuated by plot twists, absurd humor, fast motorcycles, straight and gay sex by teens and adults, pacifism and violence, this fast-paced novel covers several countries and cultures, presenting a new type of hero and lover

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