Last Call: A Novel - Barroom Reckoning With Doubt

Two men. One bar. The only question worth a damn.Jake keeps doing the math at three in the morning, flat on his back: eighty years if the genes are kind, and then the lights go out. So one Saturday night, three beers in, he asks the question nobody asks out loud: does any of it add up-or is that all there is?Doc-a physician who has stood at too many bedsides to trust an easy answer, a believer unlike any you've met, and the most stubborn man in the bar-doesn't hand him a sermon. He hands him an argument. The Big Bang and the brain, Darwin and Dostoevsky, miracles of a kind no pulpit ever offered you, what most likely happened at the tomb, and the reason the whole world hurts. Jake pushes back on every point. Doc never wins by a trick.For anyone who left the church but kept the question. For anyone who doesn't believe but hasn't closed the door. For anyone who believes and hasn't stopped thinking.Funny, irreverent, and honest to the bone. Every name Doc drops is real; the sources are in the back. Check them. They hold.Pull up a stool.