Roy Belkin, a reclusive man, Internet troll and neurotic ritualist stars In Whispering Bodies, the debut novel from Jesse Michaels. Belkin must begin each day with the task he calls The Service: visiting Christian chat-rooms to reply to users innocent questions with mocking answers.?Why do they call the taking of the communion?Mass?'"? Belkin124 responds:?They call it the Mass because after Jesus was crucified, a mass of people rushed forward to the cross and ate him. Now they eat the wafer to remember it." At forty-seven, balding, and mildly agoraphobic, Belkin is a man without direct.