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Prophecy is prologueEngland, 1775. An ambitious American pushes his expedition onward despite dire warnings from the locals. But what Benjamin Franklin discovers on the Isle of Wight isn't just superstition. It's a secret with the power to save the world--or destroy it.In less than four hundred days, most of the world's population will be dead. Nobody knows why, only when: February 9, 2027.Retired FBI Special Agent Will Piper is one of the few who will live "Beyond the Horizon." Fifteen years ago, he revealed the prophecy to the world after the hunt for a madman led him to the mystical Library of Vectis, now housed at Area 51, in an unmarked location in the Nevada desert.Will is determined to live out his days in the Florida sun . . . even as the world sinks into hedonism and despair . . . even as the Doomsday Killer's ominous calling cards resurface . . . until the apocalypse threatens the one thing Will won't compromise on: his own flesh and blood.

The most shocking secret in the history of mankind is about to be revealed ... A murderer is on the loose on the streets of New York City: nicknamed the Doomsday Killer, he's claimed six victims in just two weeks, and the city is terrified.

A shocking truth lies within the pages of an ancient library, locked inside a high-security complex deep beneath the Nevada desert. And the US government will stop at nothing to keep it classified. But now a shadowy group of ex-employees want the world to know - however terrifying the disclosure might prove to be.

Abbey of Ruac, rural France: A medieval script is discovered hidden behind an antique bookcase. Intrigued, Hugo enlists the help of archaeologist Luc Simard and the two men go exploring. When they discover a vast network of prehistoric caves, buried deep within the cliffs, they realise that they've stumbled across something extraordinary.

But there are others who want to keep the truth hidden for far more sinister reasons, others who believe that not only are the church and the faith of a billion at threat, but life as we know it is about to be destroyed - for ever.

Lana Del Rey was recently described by legendary rock critic Greil Marcus as "the most interesting artist working today, with the possible exception of Bob Dylan." In this varied collection of poems, Cooper explores the many public (and private) personas of Lana Del Rey, as viewed through the unique prism of his own life.

Once again, Harvard Professor of religion and archaeology Cal Donovan has been summoned by Pope Celestine to investigate a seemingly impossible miracle. Three Catholic teenage girls, from different corners of the world, have fallen pregnant. All three girls are named Mary, and all three girls have been proven to be virgins. Are they really all bearing the son of God? Before Cal has a chance to visit all three girls, one of the Marys disappears . and then another. As he struggles to uncover the truth, Cal realises that much more than his own and others' lives are at stake: could this apparent miracle really cause the collapse of the Catholic faith?Will appeal to fans of DAN BROWN, STEVE BERRY and LINCOLN CHILD.

An ancient loan made by Pope Pius VIII wreaks havoc in the present. The new religious conspiracy thriller featuring Cal Donovan.While browsing the Vatican libraries, Harvard professor Cal Donovan uncovers a secret that could bankrupt the Catholic church. Unearthing evidence of a 200-year-old loan which the Vatican owes to a Jewish bank, Cal deduces that, with centuries of interest behind it, the sum now amounts to a crippling 25 billion Euros. With the future of the Vatican at stake, Pope Celestine asks Cal to intercede with the Sassoon family to whom the sum is owed. Thus Cal finds himself drawn into the tangled affairs of the wealthy yet dysfunctional Sassoons. With eye-watering sums of money involved and the Vatican facing bankruptcy, everyone has their own agenda. Who can be trusted? If Cal isn't careful, he'll find more than his own life in danger.

A beloved professor of theology and archaeology at Harvard, Cal Donovan has achieved renown - but he drops everything when he is called by his friend Pope Celestine to investigate the potential existence of a mysterious prophecy. And it soon becomes clear that another party is desperate and willing to kill for the same information.In a race against time that will lead him from Lisbon to Rome and to London and Paris, Donovan will become the only person standing in the way of unspeakable destruction. Now his only hope for survival is to outwit, outrun, and outlast his enemies long enough to get to the truth behind the Fourth Prophecy.

In this action-packed thriller, a Harvard theology professor uncovers religious and papal history-and plenty of conspiracy.Cal Donovan, a theology professor at Harvard, receives an urgent message from a former graduate student, Samia Tedros. Now a museum conservator in Cairo, Samia has discovered a miraculous fragment of papyrus with three unknown lines from the Gospel of Mary Magdalene so explosive that a wealthy man is willing to kill to ensure no one ever sees it.At the Vatican, another drama is developing. The new Pope has defied centuries of tradition and appointed a nun, Sister Elisabetta Celestino, as his secretary of state. Powerful insiders are outraged that a woman now sits as the second most influential person at the Vatican, and they plot to destroy her.When Samia shows up at Cal's doorstep in the dead of night, he is drawn into a deadly competition to possess a papyrus with the power to rescue Sister Elisabetta and change the course of Christianity.

Mysticism, angels, evil spirits: Harvard Professor Cal Donovan investigates a scrying stone linked to the death of his parents.Algosh, Iraq, 1989. During an archaeological excavation Hiram Donovan uncovers a piece of meticulously knapped obsidian. Instinct tells him to hide it from others on the dig, so he sends it back to his wife in America with a note: John Dee, British Museum/Scrying stone? Days later Hiram is murdered with it made to look like an accident. But there was a witness. Decades later, on his death bed, the witness confesses to what he saw. Shortly afterwards, Cal Donovan - Professor of Archaeology at Harvard and Hiram's son - is told his mother has been killed. Upon finding the parcel still unopened alongside his father's mysterious note referencing Queen Elizabeth's astrologer and alchemist, Cal sets out to discover the truth. What he finds are fanatics determined to obtain the mystical stone, but for what purpose...?

'Cooper . . . is no ordinary thriller writer, but one who asks big questions . . . Gripping' Daily Mail'Incandescent and explosive' JAMES ROLLINSAbruzzo, Italy: a young priest suffers the stigmata of the crucifixion. The Vatican, Rome: the Pope calls on Harvard professor Cal Donovan to investigate the truth of the priest's claim. Berlin, Germany: a neo-Nazi organisation believes the priest is the key to an earth-shattering secret. A secret that can be used as a deadly weapon.When the priest is abducted, a perilous race against the clock begins. Only Cal can track down the ruthless organisation and stop it, before an apocalyptic catastrophe is unleashed.

They were taken. They returned. They never aged. A family is abducted. There are no signs of a struggle. Their Italian holiday villa is untouched. There are no ransom demands. The parents and two little girls, Victoria and Elizabeth, have simply vanished. The daughters are returned. Four years later, the girls appear back at the family's holiday home. But they are the exact same ages they were at the time of their abduction. Their parents are still nowhere to be seen. Only one man can solve the mystery. Marcus Handler, a retired CIA officer, is hired to investigate. He wants Victoria and Elizabeth's disappearance explained. But his hunt for answers leads Marcus to a disturbing truth and a reckoning with his own troubled past... What everyone's saying about Glenn Cooper: 'As Cooper builds the layers of intrigue it becomes clear that he is no ordinary thriller writer, but one who asks big questions' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Fast paced and original, Cooper delivers' SUN 'Outstanding style and tense, gripping storylines' EUROCRIME 'Dynamic, inspirational... You will not be disappointed' FRESH FICTION 'Incandescent and explosive' JAMES ROLLINS

Summoned by the Vatican, Harvard professor Cal Donovan flies to Italy to interview a young priest who has developed the stigmata of the crucifixion. Stunned to discover the priest's condition may be genuine, Cal comes to realize that the priest holds the key to an earth-shattering secret: a secret which others are desperate to control.

Once again, Harvard Professor of religion and archaeology Cal Donovan has been summoned by Pope Celestine to investigate a seemingly impossible miracle. Three Catholic teenage girls, from different corners of the world, have fallen pregnant. All three girls are named Mary, and all three girls have been proven to be virgins. Are they really all bearing the son of God? Before Cal has a chance to visit all three girls, one of the Marys disappears . and then another. As he struggles to uncover the truth, Cal realises that much more than his own and others' lives are at stake: could this apparent miracle really cause the collapse of the Catholic faith?Will appeal to fans of DAN BROWN, STEVE BERRY and LINCOLN CHILD.

There are secrets that must remain buried . . . Nine people have been slain in New York City--nine strangers with nothing in common--the apparent victims of a frighteningly elusive serial killer. Only one thing links the dead: postcards they received, mailed from Las Vegas, announcing the day they would die. Assigned to the case is a legendary FBI profiler with a troubled past, a drinking problem, and nothing left to lose . . . Abandoned to a monastery is an unwanted son born under a curse on the seventh day of the seventh month of the year 777 . . . Unprepared for a momentous discovery is a post-World War II expedition into the crypts of a clandestine medieval society . . . . . . but all lead to a secret embroiled in destiny, history, evil, faith, and corruption . . . and one terrifying truth that no one must ever know . . .

Do you believe in miracles? Three impossible births. Three incredible miracles. One deadly secret. When three teenage girls in Mexico, the United States, and Ireland discover they are pregnant, each swears she is still a virgin, and medical tests prove them right. All three are Catholic, all three saw a blinding light before blacking out, and all three share the same name: Mary. In Rome, a stunned Pope Celestine turns to Harvard professor Cal Donovan, his trusted expert in religion and archaeology, to investigate a phenomenon that looks terrifyingly like a replay of the Annunciation on a global scale. As news of the "Three Marys" breaks, pilgrims flood the girls' homes, the media fuels a storm of hope and outrage, and powerful factions inside and outside the Vatican scramble to seize control of the miracle. Cal's investigation pulls him from the shadowed corridors of the Vatican to dusty border towns and the windswept Irish coast, where he begins to suspect that something far more calculated than a miracle is unfolding. When a colleague is kidnapped and the three girls vanish into a heavily guarded American estate, Cal finds himself facing a conspiracy willing to rewrite doctrine, weaponize faith, and sacrifice the Marys to a cause they barely understand. A riveting religious thriller, Three Marys is a fast-paced Cal Donovan novel that fuses Vatican intrigue, cutting-edge science, and faith-driven conspiracy into a provocative story about belief, power, and the dangerous seduction of "miracles" in the modern age.

n the Vatican, a forgotten debt could save the world-or destroy the Church. Harvard professor Cal Donovan has what every scholar dreams of: unrestricted access to the Vatican Secret Archives. When he stumbles on evidence of a secret 1848 loan from a Jewish banking family to the Holy See-never repaid and now worth twenty-five billion euros-his quiet research ignites a deadly Vatican conspiracy. Pope Celestine VI, a reform-minded pontiff, believes the Church has a moral duty to honor the debt. His radical plan is to use the money to fund a new interfaith humanitarian foundation for the poorest of the poor. But powerful cardinals, corrupt officials, and hired killers will do anything to stop him rather than see the Vatican's wealth, art, and influence sacrificed. From the revolutionary streets of nineteenth-century Rome to the inner chambers of the modern Vatican and the private vaults of a Jewish banking dynasty, Cal races to uncover the truth about the Church's hidden obligations before the plotters silence him-and the pope-forever. The Debt is a fast-paced Vatican conspiracy thriller, blending modern Church politics, religious suspense, a historical mystery rooted in the 1848 revolutions, and high-stakes financial intrigue. Perfect for readers of religious thrillers, historical mysteries, and political suspense.