The premise is that a military-made drug, based on LSD but far more powerful, has led to the creation of a small group, fractured personalities that are aspects of the soldiers who took part in the experiment. Jovah was the only survivor, and he was rendered both insane and unable to exist in the real world, due to the detrimental effect of his perceived reality. For example, he thought that sunlight would burn him, so it did. Senses all messed up, he was placed in a sensory deprivation tank, and forgotten. Now, the splinter personalities are on the loose in the real world, working toward the ultimate goal of recreating reality. Jovah wants to be reborn into a world he never knew. If at this point you're confused, and thinking that you may have been accidentally dosed with an hallucinogen, then you're probably just where the writer wanted you to be.

God Drug features a cast that falls into two categories; people who never were but are now partly real, and a small town America bunch of recreational drug takers. The former include Hanna, the embodiment of beauty, and the General, who is, by design, an off-the-shelf Dwight T. Nukem the Third Vietnam veteran. The latter group are centred around Sparrow, a Kate Moss-like singer in a local band. It's an interesting mix, with a concept built for exploration. The story is helped along by over 20 Chinese-style full page line drawings by Andy Lee, which are scattered throughout the text.

After a promising start dealing with the nature of reality, the story becomes more of an action based acid trip with predictable themes. The characters from our existing reality are presented as being members of contemporary counter culture, but play punk music and live like leftover hippies. The unreal characters are also based in the here and now, but experience nightmares of their participation in a fantasy version of Vietnam. Whenever they close their eyes they're back in a war that never happened, except in the mind of Jovah. Often talked about but not seen, the sole survivor of the God Drug experiment is a shadowy presence that never quite comes into full view. Ultimately, I found this rather frustrating. Jovah was such an interesting idea -- a broken man trying to create a reality in which he could literally come back to life -- but seemed to fade into the world of lost plot devices, as the story diverged. What remained was an okay short novel, that wasn't as fascinating nor original as it should've been.