Wardell Church changes forever the night the social-activist professor receives a dangerous gift from a blindingly fast, immensely strong vampire with a penchant for high fashion, pop music and horrible puns. Church loses everything - even rather important parts of his anatomy - with only his conscience surviving the transformation, and the nights of blood and violence, dreadful coffee, worse wordplay, hit-parade medleys and stylish shoes hardly make up for the life and family that are gone forever. But Wardell has been chosen, his self-appointed mentor insists: It's time to save the world, or try dying. Vampire Messiah is the personal narrative of a painfully homesick monster on a desperate quest to turn his meaningless immortality into a gift to the world. Equal parts Gothic romance, political fiction and personal confession, Vampire Messiah weaves together the final exploding moments of a collapsing mind, only to arrive at one profoundly ironic insight into this precarious thing we call existence.