 When a street vendor gives Tung an illegal anti-hallucinogen, he discovers that the Party leader has a horrible secret.Algis Budrys said that "the first three-quarters of (the) story appear to be very good", and that although "Dick knows his hallucinogens very well", unlike the superb "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch", in "Faith of Our Fathers" "he makes sense only to himself".