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An ancient secret...A deadly conspiracy...A potential international bestseller. With translation rights sold in 27 countries, this high-octane commercial thriller tells of a hunt for the lost prophecies of Nostradamus and the two men who will do anything to discover their secrets. It is an entirely compulsive page-turner for readers of Raymond Khoum's "The Last Templar". Nostradamus wrote a thousand prophecies. Only 942 have survived. What happened to the missing quatrains? And what secrets did they contain to make it necessary for them to remain hidden? And why did Nostradamus leave his daughter a sealed container in his will? This mystery drives two men with very different desires. Adam Sabir is a writer desperate to revive his flagging career; Achor Bale is a member of an ancient secret society that has dedicated itself to the protection and support of the 'Three Antichrists' foretold in Nostradamus's verses - Napoleon, Adolf Hitler, and the 'one still to come'...The pair embark on a terrifying chase through the ancient Romany encampments of France in a quest to locate the missing verses.
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Mario Reading is a multi-talented writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His varied life has included selling rare books, teaching riding in Africa, studying dressage in Vienna, running a polo stable in Gloucestershire and maintaining a coffee plantation in Mexico. An acknowledged expert on the prophecies of Nostradamus, Reading is the author of five non-fiction titles published in the UK and around the world.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A breath of fresh air in the genre,
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This review is from: The Nostradamus Prophecies (Paperback)
Definitely a cut above the usual Dan Brownish genre novel. The Nostradamus stuff is important to the plot, but not overly-so. It's a reason for the plot to exist but not the be-all and end-all (the protagonists could have been chasing anything, really, be it a cache of diamonds or a phial of life-saving bacteria from the planet Zarg).
This is a thoroughly involving thriller, with characters who could actually be real, rather than stereotypes, with the exception of the Bad Guy, who's not in my opinion quite complex enough (he's a bit of a run of the mill psychopath, even with his Ancien Régime background). The gypsy stuff appears well-researched but not intrusively so; some authors insist on slinging in foreign words just to establish that they've really, REALLY researched their subject but Reading keeps a light hand, so the inclusions of Gypsy lore, language and customs don't appear to be bolted on. The first part of the prologue, featuring a hanging, drawing and quartering, has little if any relevance to what follows, except to establish that our run of the mill psychopath had a psychopathic ancestor 450 years ago. As another reviewer has commented, though, the Epilogue does appear to be a contrived way of justifying the book's title. If you enjoy a good chase thriller in the Ludlum mould you'll enjoy this.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fascinating blend of fact and fiction,
By Avid reader (West Palm Beach, FL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Nostradamus Prophecies (Paperback)
This thriller cracks along at a great pace. It's set amongst the secretive Gypsy community in France, and features two protagonists, American writer Adam Sabir and French detective Joris Calque, who are definitely outside the norm of usual genre thrillers. Plus you get an insight into the Gypsy way of life through Yola Samana and Alexi Dufontaine, who go on the run with Sabir when all three of them get on the wrong side of the Corpus Maleficus, in the shape of Achor Bale, a.k.a. 'the eye-man'. I thought I'd just be getting the usual conspiracy thriller holiday run-around when I bought this book, but it's far better than that - it's a real reader's book. Think Robert Crais, James Lee Burke and Dennis Lehane - not Dan Brown. I'm looking forward to The Mayan Codex now, which is the follow-up, I gather.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Fantastic Thriller,
By Laurie "Laurie" (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Nostradamus Prophecies (Paperback)
This was a real page-turner, with a host of surprises. You never knew where you were going with it, and each plot turnaround took you to a different, unexpected spot. The gypsy milieu was an eye-opener, and the Nostradamus stuff was not too heavily ladled on. It was the characters that really surprised me - and the humour. I really found myself giving a damn about what happened to them and how everything was going to pan out. And the ending was a complete surprise. This thriller is really worth its five stars, and I'm looking forward to the next instalment.
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