In a world where faith is outlawed and gods are man-made, one broken soldier walks the ruins searching for truth. Chungho was a child when the corporations became kingdoms and their executives turned themselves into living idols rat-faced, scale-skinned, worshipped like gods. Owning a Bible became a death sentence. His father whispered Proverbs by candlelight, and those verses became his only compass when the world demanded kneeling. Now grown and cursed with the monstrous power of the Ba aal serum Chungho wanders the deserts and shattered cities of the new empire. He frees prisoners marked Heathen, faces creatures who have purchased divinity through flesh and wealth, and carries the sin of every god he s slain. Each victory births another false savior, and every salvation costs a child, a mother, a friend. But when a young believer named Ha-yeon tells him of a secret city in the mountains a refuge where the faithful still sing Chungho must choose: remain the monster that terrifies tyrants, or learn to stop before he becomes one himself. The Duck that Jumped the Gun is a searing dystopian epic of faith, rebellion, and the fragile line between man and god. A brutal, poetic odyssey for readers of dark sci-fi novels where every proverb is a weapon, and every act of mercy is an act of war.
