Level 7 is a 1959science fictionnovel by Mordecai Roshwald[?]. It describes the experiences of a man who is ordered to pull the trigger in World War III, and his remaining life and death as the radioactive fallout from above eats its way slowly down into his underground radiation shelter, level by level.
... or superstitions are
confined to several passages, viz., the merit of good
works and transubstantiation (iv. 2), purgatory
(iv. 9), and the worship of saints (i. 13, ...