Review: Sophomoric joking aside, this is clever
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 5, 2012
For fans of Monty Python, this is a nifty short story about an angel whose assignment is to ensure that Rome gets founded. The prerequisite is for the Greeks to defeat Troy, and Mercury uses whatever is at hand to accomplish the task. If you enjoy this quick read, you should go on to Mercury Falls and its sequels (Mercury Rises, Mercury Rests), which are written in exactly the same style. The trilogy deals with the Apocalypse, but one in which there is little horror and lots of divine bureaucracy and political wrangling among angels, demons, humans and...linoleum.