Lethal Dose Of Salvation James — Daniel Quinn

Lethal Dose of Salvation is about Oscar Ireland, a cathedral groundskeeper, who, while in church praying, is shot in the head. By the time his wife arrives at the hospital, she is horrified to discover that the love of her life is in a coma. Within his comatose state, Oscar awakens in a garden. Up ahead he sees one of the many mansions in heaven. Befuddled, confused, he enters the seven-story building. After mingling on the first floor with the regular dead, he meets Daniel, his guardian angel. Oscar decides to move onward and upward to the second floor that houses the Prayer Chamber. Soon he moves up to the third floor where the members of the Historical Committee conduct their business. Since he is not yet physically dead, those he encounters cannot see him, which adds to his frustration. On the fourth floor is the Artistic Committee; fifth floor, Biblical Committee. Thanks to his guardian angel and the information he acquires from visiting the various offices, he discovers he is in the building where the committee members must decide who among the living are worthy of receiving inspiration. The sixth floor contains the Administration Committee. They correlate all the information gathered from the floors below. Enclosed on the seventh floor are the sacred offices of the Holy Trinity. While his soul is pulling him upward to see God, his heart tries to keep him tethered to his grieving wife back on earth. Oscar's personal struggle is between the promise of wisdom and the power of love. It is a realistic look at an inconceivable concept: how inspiration is transmitted from God to man, and one man's quest to see God while still alive. Mystical and surreal, yet it never loses its human perspective. Perhaps the most dramatic aspect of salvation is the unbreakable bond between a man and a woman.