num_pages: 335
description: What Happened To Eden?The New York Times bestselling author of Ahab's Wife Four Spirits and Abundance returns with a daring and provocative novel that envisions a world where science and faith contend for the allegiance of a new Adam &amp; Eve.Hours before his untimelyand highly suspiciousdeath world-renowned astrophysicist Thom Bergmann shares his discovery of extraterrestrial life with his wife Lucy. Feeling that the warring world is not ready to learn ofor acceptproof of life elsewhere in the universe Thom entrusts Lucy with his computer flash drive which holds the keys to his secret work.Devastated by Thom's death Lucy keeps the secret but Thom's friend anthropologist Pierre Saad contacts Lucy with an unusual and dangerous request about another sensitive matter. Pierre needs Lucy to help him smuggle a newly discovered artifact out of Egypt: an ancient codex concerning the human authorship of the Book of Genesis. Offering a reinterpretation of the creation story the document is sure to threaten the foundation of the Jewish Christian and Muslim religions . . . and there are those who will stop at nothing to suppress it.Midway through the daring journey Lucy's small plane goes down on a slip of verdant land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Middle East. Burned in the crash landing she is rescued by Adam a delusional American soldier whose search for both spiritual and carnal knowledge has led to madness. Blessed with youth beauty and an unsettling innocence Adam gently tends to Lucy's wounds and in this quiet solitary paradise a bond between the unlikely pair grows. Ultimately Lucy and Adam forsake their half-mythical Eden and make their way back toward civilization where members of an ultraconservative religious cult are determined to deprive the world of the knowledge Lucy carries.
language: English
title: Adam & Eve
publisher: William Morrow