God's Gift

The charismatic Mancunian television presenter Tommy Armstrong, The King of Saturday Night, is a bad man who wants to get much, much badder by exploring occultism and embracing evil. Suffering from an extreme form of satiated boredom in his plush Chelsea home, he befriends two Satanists who guide and instruct him in his quest for contemporary endarkenment.

Tommy’s expedition to endarkenment includes his born-again Christian former wife; a tabloid kiss-and-tell story; a rape; his withdrawal from public life; a deranged stalker; a Black Mass; a memoir ghostwriter who falls in love with him; an attack by a telepathic schizophrenic knifeman; an act of equine bestiality; an attempt to break the legs of an opponent in a charity football match; two orgies; a disastrous flirtation with the stage and the subsequent cursing of his critics; a Bacchanalian trip to Las Vegas with his satanic mentors; a vicious attack on a paparazzo; a necrophilic episode; being cursed by his occult mentor; and two suicides.