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A novel in progress

The Big
Finish

Politics, Falling in Love…
and the End of the World.

By Sean Sanczel

About the novel
The Big Finish title floats above the White House as a hand reaches through storm clouds

The premise

The end of the world.
On his watch.

Before Benjamin Storm was president, he was a TV weatherman. Now it’s dark in the middle of the day, the signs are getting biblical, and he has to decide whether the United States should fight the end of the world.

The Big Finish is a satire about politics, faith, and love at the worst possible moment. It asks what happens when the most powerful man in the world meets someone who doesn’t need his permission.

Billy Martinez as Gabriel beside Sean Sanczel as President Ben Storm in the stage production
Billy Martinez as Gabriel and Sean Sanczel as President Ben Storm in the original production.

From stage to page

It started as a musical.

I wrote, composed, co-directed and starred in the original stage production. Now I’m revisiting that story as a novel, with more room to get inside Ben Storm’s head as the world comes apart around him.

See the original stage production