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| About the Book | |
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Letters written by Jesus have been discovered, and they don’t say what we thought they would. The impact of these letters is incalculable - cultures disrupted, governments threatened, families shattered. Should they be revealed? For nearly two millennia, religious leaders have sought The Epistles of Jesus. Not for the benefit of their adherents, but to suppress them, fearful that these writings would ever see the light of day. Governments have joined in the pursuit, desperate for a way to strengthen their hold on the minds and hearts of their populations. These efforts have been deflected by a Council founded more than eighteen hundred years ago by Aulus Septimius, a scholar of 2nd century Egypt. The Council must continue its sacred duty to protect the Epistles of Jesus from destruction - or decide to finally reveal them to the world. In the present day, the internet is on the verge of obsolescence, led there by the innovations of Alexander Georgios, Chief Technology Officer of Protocomm, a fast-growing darling of Silicon Valley. His prescience has brought earlier victors in cyber warfare to the brink of extinction amid their catastrophic failure to innovate. These secretive forces must now aggressively defend their long held advantages from becoming mere afterthoughts. Simultaneously controlling the flow of global information and influencing the passionate religious beliefs of a huge portion of the world's population irresistibly attracts the most ruthless, ambitious, and powerful of world leaders and well-hidden criminals, all eager to deploy for themselves the source of such power. But casting the Epistles into the rough seas of social media, competitive economies, cultural diversity, and rising political conflict poses globe-spanning risks.
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| About the Author | |
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The Epistles of Jesus is Bayard’s first novel. The idea emerged from considering the frailties of early Christian history and the impact on Western Culture of the orthodoxy formed during those early years. Bayard studied Studio Art and Classics at UNC Chapel Hill and earned an MBA from Erasmus University in The Netherlands. |