Conville & Walsh Ltd

THE SOURCE
Michael Cordy
Praise for Michael Cordy
Conville & Walsh Ltd
Fiction
An all-singing, all-dancing cover-to-cover thrills and spills action adventure with a thought-provoking idea at its
core. What more could you ask for?
– DAILY MIRROR on TRUE
Sheer entertainment… Delivers from initial concept through fast action to explosive finale. A masterclass in how
it’s done.
– OBSERVER on TRUE
A taut, gripping thriller
– THE TIMES on THE MESSIAH CODE
Explosive… An entertaining tale of non-stop action
– TORONTO STAR on THE MESSIAH CODE
All life on Earth today stems from one spark, one place…
Ambitious geologist Ross Kelly has it all: a lucrative career as an oil search consultant and a beautiful
wife, Lauren, a brilliant Yale language academic, who has just translated the most mysterious
document in the world, the legendary 400-year-old Voynich cipher manuscript (a genuine manuscript
which resides in Yale’s Beinecke Library and has confounded experts for centuries).
Then an attempt to steal the translation leaves Lauren in a coma, hovering between life and death.
In the depths of despair, Ross is approached first by a sinister priest and then by a mysterious nun.
Their obsession with the Voynich manuscript forces him to re-examine the mysterious document,
which dates back to the conquest of the New World and chronicles the discovery of an ancient place
so miraculous and terrible that it rewrites the beginning of the bible. To save Lauren he decides to
abandon everything else in his life and seek out this mythical El jardin del Dios – the garden of god.
Racing against time and a fanatical priest desperate to claim the garden for his church, Ross’s journey
leads him to discover one of science’s most holy grails: the source of all life on Earth, an Eden so
magical and potent that it shatters the certainties of both science and religion.
Michael Cordy worked for ten years in marketing before giving it all up to write his first novel, THE
MIRACLE STRAIN (re-titled as THE MESSIAH CODE), which became an international bestseller and
sold in 25 languages. He is also the author of LUCIFER (retitled as THE LUCIFER CODE), TRUE
(retitled as THE VENUS CONSPIRACY) and CRIME ZERO.
UK Publisher Bantam/Transworld
Delivery December 2006
UK Publication July 2007
Status Manuscript
Length 110,000 words
Agent PW
All rights available excluding UK & Commonwealth, Turkey (Bilge)
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