The Gliding Serpent: A Secular Tale Based on the Book of Job

By Joel A. Robitaille

What happens when a regular, hardworking, dutiful family man gets paired at work with a ticking time bomb of a woman ready to detonate? Damnation? Redemption? Oblivion? Based loosely on the Book of Job, the Gliding Serpent is a secular tale about a man who allows his sense of duty to be used against him by an unknown adversary seeking the upper hand. When he wakes up from her spell, his life is in shambles, his conscience is troubled and he's a social pariah. There's no choice but to grow from his unexplainable predicament or perish.Well-intentioned advice from four unlikely voices will try to lead him astray. The answers he seeks can only be discovered in horrifying places: a brutal abduction, a near-death experience, and a raging whirlwind. Set on the sparkling shores of Georgian Bay, filled with a fascinating cast of characters - including a jaded lover, a hawkish salesman, a reclusive chemist, a bully cop, a carefree dandy, and a grieving widower - this novel asks you to consider how you would respond if everything you loved was taken away from you. No one would choose such hardships; then again, life seldom gives people a choice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1697587402
• ISBN13: 9781697587401
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 506 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"