The Cathar Secret, livre ebook

National and local publicity and review coverageE-mail, e-newsletters, and online marketing campaignSocial media campaignTV and radio book tourElectronic press kitwww.greggloomis.comGalleys (print and electronic); galley giveaway at BEAWhen a missing ancient manuscript is discovered in Rome, Lang Reilly sets out on a dangerous quest to London, Prague, and Rome to find those who would rather kill him than have him reveal its frightening contents.In the secret archives of the Vatican, an ancient Tibetan document has remained hidden to everyone but the highest authorities in the Catholic Church. Those authorities had long ago disposed of the Cathars, the religious sect who’d once attempted to spread the document’s heresies of reincarnation. Centuries later, a young boy’s bizarre flashbacks as an Auschwitz prisoner threaten to prove the document’s theory of reincarnation, shattering the faith of millions around the world. The Church will go to any lengths to protect the scrolls’ contents and stop the boy, Wynn-Three, from spreading its heresies. But someone else has beaten them to it with an agenda of their own: the boy’s flashbacks may help reveal a long-lost treasure, stashed by the Nazis for safekeeping. Kidnapping Wynn-Three, these criminals take him to the snowy slopes of Germany and Austria in hopes he will lead them to the loot. And ex-CIA agent Lang Reilly may be the only one who can track down his young neighbor, Wynn-Three. With criminals hot on his trail, Reilly races across Europe to rescue the boy. But if he can’t pull the missing pieces together and uncover the missing document, Wynn-Three—and the Church’s reputation—may both be lost to history. A fast-paced, intriguing thriller, The Cathar Secret enraptures from the controversial beginning until the shocking conclusion.Ducking his head below the dashboard as two more shots ricocheted off the hood, he slammed the shift lever into reverse and stood on the gas. He risked a peek over the steering wheel and saw the Mercedes fishtail as it swung around. Head down, Lang was steering by peering between the two back seats as the Range Rover’s transmission protested the rpm’s generated by floorboarding the accelerator in reverse. Pedal to the metal or not, the machine simply did not possess the ability to outrun the other vehicle in drive, let alone backwards.He tried to not even think about the consequences of meeting another car or truck occupying this lane.With one hand, Lang opened the driver’s door and then snatched the Browning from inside his ski jacket as he tried to remember the location of the patch of ice on the road he had crossed seconds before. With more than a little luck . . .He managed to maneuver the Range Rover around the curve, its high center of gravity causing it to lean towards the abyss below alarmingly. The Mercedes would be back in sight of him in less than a second.He felt the wheels spin for an instant as they hit the icy patch he was looking for. With the gas pedal still on the floor, he stood on the break and violently cut the wheel to the left. The braking action broke whatever little adhesion the tires had with the ice, and the rear end spun as he let the accelerator up for a split second. He desperately sawed the wheel until the Range Rover stopped, blocking both lanes. Then he jumped, grunting in pain as he hit the pavement and rolled downhill.