Truth or lies, life or death
By: Leonard Almond
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Denver, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9781432774837
Subjects: Authors; Fiction; Quests (Expeditions); Spiritual life; Écrivains; Romans, nouvelles; Quête; Vie spirituelle
Description: Would you give up the chance to possess limitless power? Adventure story writer Paul Rogers, creator of rich playboy and treasure hunter Jack Stanton, is presented with this decision. Due to a gambling problem, his life is in shambles. His bookie wants money, his publisher is after him for a book he hasn't written, and his wife is threatening to divorce him. One night in a hotel room before he is to speak at a conference, he decides to solve his problems by taking an overdose of sleeping pills, he fails. The next morning, he meets a stranger who invites him to go on a journey to search for an ancient manuscript that holds the secrets to great power. He is also told there are forces that do not want this manuscript with the secrets to be found and will do anything to keep it hidden. Just talking to Paul has put his life in danger. The journey will not be easy but if he goes and endures to the end, his life will never be the same and he will be in possession of secrets to great power that many men have died to possess. What would you do? This story may be fiction, but the manuscript and its secrets are real and so are the forces that fight to keep it hidden.