High Priest of Hallelujah

He spent a decade haphazardly wandering the land hiding from God but his young bride was actually killed by a radio evangelist/messianic fiend called Brother Earl.

Upon the stark rock Mountain of Three Days he and his mentor, a desert sage of a sand-sung Indian mystic named Glory Hallelujah, confront the Legions of Death with rage and metaphor.

Speaking of which, while defending his lady against assault by a barroom motorcycle gang, with nose bloodied and fists at his side, he scattered the ruffians with poetry, "... a tear, a child-song memory, bird-call truths singing through the meadowland... " He is Jackson Blake, factory guy, widower, vagabond, banjo player and-the High Priest of Hallelujah.