# Messiah

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- Book: [Messiah](https://www.bookquiver.com/gore-vidal/messiah) ([Messiah.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gore-vidal/messiah.md))
- Authors: [Gore Vidal](https://www.bookquiver.com/gore-vidal)
- Publisher: abacus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-4914-843-4
- Published: 2026-03-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

By the bestselling and celebrated Gore Vidal, the story of the creation of a new religion, Cavism, which quickly comes to replace the established but failing Christian religion From his long-time hiding-place in provincial Egypt, Eugene Luther tells the story of John Cave, a former Californian undertaker, his rise to power and the subsequent global impact of his new religion.