When a man calling himself Emmanuel walks into a failing presidential campaign and claims to be Jesus Christ returned, Sen. George Matthews stops losing. The miracles are real. The base ignites. A long-foretold prophecy appears fulfilled. And the people closest to the candidate begin to disagree about what they are actually witnessing.
As Emmanuel bends Scripture to justify immigration raids, the death penalty, and the relentless pursuit of power, chief aide Simon Fuller, Rev. Patricia Mitchell, and staffer Thomas Reid are pulled toward the same question from different directions: when faith and ambition speak in the same voice, how do you tell salvation from manipulation?
Drawing its structure from the Stations of the Cross, THE RETURN is a political thriller about the slow, willing surrender of conscience, and about how a movement that has already chosen to believe responds to anyone who asks it to doubt.
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Jon Fila is a writer, educator, and consultant based in Chicago. Over twenty-six years in public education he taught secondary English, coached innovation, coordinated curriculum, and led professional development, earning recognition for his work in equity, inclusion, and open educational resources, including being named a 2022 Minnesota Teacher of the Year finalist. He began The Return in 2001 as a devout evangelical Christian and finished it, a quarter century later, as an atheist. He also writes the comic Dolorem, other fiction, and poetry. The Return is his debut novel.
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