The book of Dave : a revelation of the recent past and the distant future

When East End Cabdriver Dave Rudman's Wife Takes From Him His Only Son, Dave Pens A Gripping Text-a Compilation About Everything From The Environment, Arabs, And American Tourists To Sex, Prozac, And Cabby Lore-that Captures All Of His Frustrations And Anxieties About His Contemporary World. Dave Buries The Book In His Ex-wife's Hampstead Backyard, Intending It For His Son, Carl, When He Comes Of Age. Five Hundred Years Later, Dave's Book Is Found By The Inhabitants Of Ham, A Primitive Archipelago In Postapocalyptic London, Where It Becomes A Sacred Text Of Biblical Proportions And The Template For A New Civilization. Only One Islander, Symum, Remains Incredulous. But, After He Is Imprisoned For Heresy, His Son Carl Must Journey Through The Forbidden Zone And Into The Terrifying Heart Of New London To Find The Only Thing That Will Reveal The Truth Once And For All: A Second Book Of Dave That Repudiates The First. The Book Of Dave Is A Profound Meditation Upon The Nature Of Religion And A Caustic Satire Of Contemporary Life. Five centuries after Dave Rudman wrote a gripping text--part memoir, part deranged philosophical treatise, and part handbook meant for his son when he came of age--it is discovered by the inhabitants on the island of Ham, where it becomes a sacred text of biblical proportion, and its author is revered as a mighty prophet Based around the rants of Dave Rudman, a disgruntled East End taxi driver, who writes his woes down and buries them only to have them discovered 500 years later and used as the sacred text for a religion that has taken hold in the flooded remnants of London.