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Cross Dove Publishing, LLC
April 2017
On Sale: March 21, 2017
Featuring: Matt Carter
320 pages
ISBN: 0965651304
EAN: 9780965651301
Kindle: B06XY789N8
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Suspense | Mystery | Thriller Arcane
THE FIRST GOSPEL, in the tradition of “The DaVinci Code,” is
an historical thriller at the center of which lies the truth
about the greatest archaeological mystery the world has ever
known. Edessa, Turkey 943 A.D.: Eighty thousand Byzantine knights
lay siege to the Muslim citadel. Prepared to raze the city,
the Byzantine commander offers to spare it if the Muslim
emir will hand over a fourteen-foot long linen cloth. The
stunned emir readily delivers the cloth that bears the
shocking full-body image of a crucified man. Arizona almost 1100 years later: Matt Carter, an
under-employed law school graduate, discovers the brutally
murdered body of his old professor, Samuel Rosen. When Matt
returns home, he finds a letter posted by Rosen before his
murder. Rosen begs Matt to protect an ancient parchment
owned by his family for generations. Unknown to Matt, the
parchment holds the key to the two-thousand-year-old mystery
of the Cloth of Edessa. Now Matt becomes the unwitting prey
of those who will stop at nothing to keep his parchment’s
truth hidden. From the magnificent opulence of Rome’s St. Peter’s
Cathedral to the breathtaking beauty of the Sierra Nevada
Mountains, readers will become part of Matt’s frantic search
for a truth that will forever change political, religious,
and industrial fortunes around the world … even as Matt
fights for survival.
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1 comment posted.
Re: The First Gospel
Face it! Jesus changed the world. There are those that
dispute his miracles. But the greatest miracle of them all,
ardent followers facing certain death by crucifixion or
worse, went off by themselves to preach and tell the story
to neighbors and enemies, mostly enemies. And they told the
story. And they were slaughtered. And from that humble
beginning of a few guys preaching peace and love, Jesus
dominated the entire Western World. None of that can be
disputed. That Jesus would leave a physical proof of his
existence is logical and compelling. Now, in that context,
let’s look at the Shroud of Turin. Let’s put in on the
scales of justice. Let’s weigh the evidence. Or maybe you
shouldn’t. Because, if you do, what can you say that
supports the position that the Shroud is not the burial
cloth of Jesus?
(Bud Mirassou 8:03pm April 10, 2017)
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