Author Description

"The Book of Wisdom is a journey from the ancient Near East to yesterday's Dublin, a hunt for the very first song, and a quest to rediscover the bonds between religion and superstition, between history and myth, between art and reason, between love and hate. A scribe fights to save his heritage from the Roman legion. A professor seeks atonement for his mistakes. Both men, scholars separated by millennia, seek a pathway to the divine, sacrificing all to protect an ancient melody that opens a door between the realms. But while the power is great, good and evil are hard to balance when heroes cannot tell magic from physics in a universe where both exist together. Men and women fight for what they desire most, believing it to be for the good, but how can one know what is true when science is also a myth? And when a hero falls in battle, we pray that another will rise to take her place so that evil, if evil it is, will not overwhelm us all. Jerusalem, Palestine. 68 CE. Jacob ben Honi must fight to protect the woman he loves and the heritage of his people from the vengeance he brought upon them. He hides an ancient book of songs, then encodes its location on a Copper Scroll. Next, he sends this Scroll on an odyssey which will draw generations of seekers into its wake. The scribe's ruse sparks a war waged across centuries, while he is left with a debt he must wait millennia to repay. Dublin, Ireland. 2011 CE. Lured by a woman and a song, Douglas Crenshaw deciphers an Arabic poem and uncovers an ancient melody. As his rivals close in, he rekindles a flame while facing the truth about his past. Conflict leads to murder as his team joins the hunt for the Copper Scroll. Yet when he finally confronts the woman of his heart, she reveals a secret from their past. He realizes he has been duped. The origin of an ancient song is no longer the only mystery he has to solve, and the answers, it seems, are just beyond his grasp." --