The Coincidence God                                           © John Lewis 2025

The Coincidence God by John Lewis – Synopsis

The Coincidence God is a first-person narration by John, an occasional writer and part-time consultant on security matters to the government. Snippets within the narrative suggest he has had special forces training.
John claims he is The Coincidence God, not only because he seems to attract many more coincidences than most people – a disproportionate number – he is given reason to believe that he can actually cause things to coincide when he wants them to. He decides he will use what he calls his ‘superpower’ only for altruistic, and never personal reasons, a noble intention which he occasionally abandons.

Deciding he can’t cure all the world’s problems, he elects to tackle a man he learns is a kingpin in the abominable people-smuggling and human-trafficking industries. To assist him, he recruits the help of people he has worked with, including those with IT expertise. Together with Bian, a Vietnamese lady who had lost her elder son and probably her elder daughter to people smugglers controlled by this man, they are able to bankrupt his organisation and remove him from the scene.

Bian then pleads with John to find out if her elder daughter had died in France as she had been told. He goes to France and, with the help of a senior gendarme friend, discovers that her daughter is not only alive, but had been instrumental in the escape of other women in her situation and the return of their passports.
Consequently, she was being hunted by an Englishman who controls human trafficking in Britain and France. Because John knows this man will attend a cricket Test at Lord’s, he intercepts him and removes him from the scene. John then takes Bian’s daughter back to Australia to be reunited with her

During this trip he relates how he once served in the navy as a weapons specialist but, after being charged with a serious crime, he resigned because of senior staff not believing he was innocent despite the charges being dropped. This drives him into a period of depression until a young Iraqi girl, whom he had saved along with her family when the Taliban attacked the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, helps prove that he is completely innocent.

Once published, when it gets out that a major section of the story culminates in the wake of a humorous take on the regularly and recently repeated TV coverage of the controversial dismissal of England cricketer Jonny Bairstow and the consequential uproar at Lord’s during England’s previous ashes series against Australia, sales in Australia and the UK are likely to go through the roof