It was on this day in 1929 that the mob war between Al Capone and Bugs Moran came to a violent head inside the garage of the SMC Cartage Company in Chicago. Seven members of Moran’s gang were ambushed in a well-executed plan by Capone’s enforcers (some dressed as Chicago policemen) and butchered mercilessly by machine gun fire. Moran himself by some twist of luck managed to avoid being at the scene.
A short while after finishing my review of Kingdom Come (thank heaven that’s the last we’ll ever see of Left Behind… hopefully) I found out about another book that was coming out around the same time. This one also dealt with Pre-Tribulation Rapture theology, but with a twist: it’s story was about what happens when Christians obsess about the Rapture to the point of ignoring the work that God has provided to occupy ourselves with until He does come. That alone would have piqued my interest. That the book’s page on Amazon described it as a “quirky apocalyptic gangster novel” only fueled my desire to know more. And that this was a Christian satire novel that was – gasp! – said to be uproariously funny settled it in my mind: I absolutely had to read Tribulation House by Chris Well.
It wasn’t until two days ago that I found a ...