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The Vatican has lost its most closely held secret--irrefutable proof of a woman Messiah named Sophia. Born in the Holy Land in 310 AD, Sophia was known for performing healing miracles. Her divinity threatened early Christian dogma and she was executed as a girl by Church authorities. In the present, Zoe Ridgeway, an art broker, visits Switzerland with her husband Seth, where she expects to purchase the estate of a German art collector. But before Zoe can complete the transaction, she and Seth are drawn into a thousand-year-old web of conspiracy, murder and intrigue that begins and ends with the mystery of Sophia--and all the powerful forces who seek to protect their patriarchies from a divinely feminine truth.
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New York Times best-selling author Lewis Perdue??s twenty published books have sold more than 4 million copies and have been translated into every major language in the world along with more than a dozen other tongues. Of his twenty published books, fifteen are thrillers and the remaining five cover wine, technology, and how porn has driven the technology and business model of the World Wide Web. Perdue studied physics and biology in college and usually works those into his books. He received his B.S. (1972) with distinction from Cornell University. He has served on the faculties at UCLA and Cornell University, founded four companies including two technology firms, a wine company and a magazine, and been a top aide to a U.S. Senator and a state governor. He has also run political races for Congress, worked as a Washington (D.C) correspondent (Ottaway/Dow-Jones, States News Service) , a columnist for Gannett, The Wall Street Journal Online, CBS Marketwatch and TheStreet. Com. Writing books is his first love, but in his spare time Lew goes backpacking, mountain biking and is editor and publisher of the digital wine trade publication Wine Industry Insight (wineindustryinsight. com) I'm the grandson (on my mother's side) of a powerful Mississippi Delta planter who owned two plantations. On my father's side, there are university presidents, professors and a U.S. Senator who created Jim Crow segregation when he wrote the Mississippi state constitution. Me? I got kicked out of Ole Miss for leading a civil rights march. And I never dreamed I'd write books. I was a fat nerd always building weird science things in the garage, blanking out the local television station in Jackson Mississippi and winning science fairs all up through the international level. I thought I'd always be a scientist. But after being kicked out of Ole Miss in 1967, described in my thriller, Perfect Killer. Perfect Killer is an incredibly personal novel for me because the hero's story is my own coming-of-age story in the 1960s and describes much of my family history. Anyway, after the riot at Ole Miss I found myself disinherited and thrown out of the entire state.I landed, eventually, at Cornell University after working in a factory in Horseheads New York and getting an associates degree from a great two-year school, Corning Community College where my English professor, John Orser, told me he thought I had writing ability.Needing a way to pay my way through college, I began as a sports reporter for the Elmira Star-Gazette. I continued to support myself as a newspaper reporter at the Ithaca Journal when I entered Cornell University. Even though I loved science and math -- especially quantum physics -- I found I loved writing more.There's a lot more between then and now, but the following will give you a small idea:
