"The Apocalypse has never been funnier."--Clive Barker

"Hilariously naughty."--Kirkus Reviews

"Wacky and irreverent."--Booklist

"Fiendishly funny."--New Orleans Times-Picayune

"From beginning to end, GOOD OMENS is side-splittingly funny . . . a ripping good time."--Rave Reviews

"If you've never read [GOOD OMENS], don't miss it now. Grade: A."--Rocky Mountain News

"It could be called The Hitchhiker's Guide to Armargeddon."--Palm Beach Post

"[L]ittle asides, quirky observations, simple puns and parody eventually add up to snorts, chortles and outright laughs."--San Diego Union-Tribune

"What's so funny about Armageddon? More than you'd think . . . GOOD OMENS has arrived just in time."--Detroit Free Press

"Full-bore contemporary lunacy. A steamroller of silliness that made me giggle out loud."--San Diego Union-Tribune

The classic collaboration from the internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, soon to be an original series starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant.

?Good Omens . . . is something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don DeLillo had collaborated. Lots of literary inventiveness in the plotting and chunks of very good writing and characterization. It?s a wow. It would make one hell of a movie. Or a heavenly one. Take your pick.??Washington Post
According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.

So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon?both of whom have lived amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle?are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture.

And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .