Superviviente

Tender Branson is the sole passenger on Flight 2039, destined to crash in the Australian desert. The last survivor of a sect that ordered its followers to commit suicide upon discovery —the Church of the Creed— he dictates his unique story to the plane's black box before its inevitable demise. After a childhood spent as a devout boy and a string of menial jobs, he met the prophet Fertility Hollis, who enabled him to become a successful televangelist: a celebrity messiah addicted to Botox and steroids, author of a bestselling autobiography and a book of the most common prayers, including one "to delay orgasm" and another "to silence car alarms."