The Captive and the Free A Novel

Mr Preedy is an evangelist and faith healer of extraordinary gifts--a reformed scoundrel and seducer, self-confessed, variously hailed as madman, fraud and humbug, and truly dedicated man of God. By rousing the forces of orthodoxy in a parish in the heart of London, he stirs up a storm that involves the embattled local press and leads to a general dusting off of personal beliefs. Mr Preedy lives imaginatively, by the faith and the power of the word, in a world which compels every individual to exercise the privilege of choice. He is a free man, free to be good or evil.