From the World Headquarters The Southern Primitive Protestant Seminary (SoPrim) in Abysmuth, Mississippi, Mobey sallies forth - faith in his heart and not much in his head - to bring the Word to the weirdest places in the world. With an enthusiasm matched only by his ineptitude, Crispin journeys to the farthest-out Outback of Australia, with a truckload of glass beads and a cockeyed plan to bring water to the desert; to even farther-out regions of a Greenwich Village opium den; to the beleaguered faithful of the perpetually war-torn Latin American country of Oblivia; to Mexico, where a group of elderly American expatriates is terrorizing the countryside; to the mysterious East, where he must eradicate a heresy that threatens the stability not only of the church, but of the world; and even following the road of his good intentions, into the jaws of Hell itself (which can be reached by subway) where he accidentally invents a torment for the damned that earns him the praise of the devil himself.

"Gabriel Quyth's uproarious novel is thoroughly irreverent and fall-off-your-chair funny - as far a cry from Elmer Gantry as Animal House is from God and the Man at Yale. His cheerful blighted view of the human race is almost enough to make one sign on for the adventure that crowns Crispin's mission - literally, a trip to the stars on a wing and prayer.