The Cathedral of Truth

VAST IN SCOPE and daring in action, this original story takes the reader far away from conventional norms into a world of motorcycle adventure, secret societies dedicated to keeping the real message of Jesus alive in the face of continual attack from the Catholic Church and into the life of a man suffering from Asperger’s Syndrome. Written in the post-Holy Blood, Holy Grail world where The Da Vinci Code has established a new genre, Cathedral of Truth goes deeper into other aspects of the Jesus’ offspring, His primary thrust of his ministry to gather his the lost flocks of the House of Israel and the Gospel of Thomas, discovered in 1945 and said to be the identical twin brother of Jesus. It is far from an academic work yet not a spy novel or traditional adventure story; it is a new genre where esoteric yet purposefully hidden religious history is brought to light in an engaging and unforgettable manner.
Rolland Hellmantle, freelance computer writer based in Hong Kong, finds himself drawn into a journey to find a Dutch minister living in the Philippines who has information concerning a buried map at a French prison in North Vietnam. Hellmantle’s grandfather, a French Legionnaire and researcher in family history and the legends of the Blonde Acquitaine, buried a map said to shown the whereabouts of buried scrolls written by Jesus and Thomas in Kashmir Valley. Hellmantle, suffering from a trauma involving the death of his identical twin brother and his father, has gone further into the depths of extremism, spending days and weeks in his home on Lamma Island in Hong Kong reading history books and others research papers, letting the daily needs of living fall by the wayside, including his freelance magazine work. In an effort to help him return to some semblance of normalcy and safety, his cousin D’Aqs Grosseteste accompanies him during his motorcycle trip exploring the northern Island of Luzon in an effort to find a Dutchman preaching in a church with a rouge bell tower. D’Aqs, a missionary in Burma who had been taken ill with malaria and was recovering in Hong Kong where his father lived as a professor, had known Hellmantle twenty-five years earlier at boarding school but had not seen him since. It is obvious to D’Aqs that his cousin was a functioning autistic but without his help could not achieve his set task of finding the Dutch Padre. Also, joining Hellmantle on a motorcycle could be the tonic he needs to complete his recovery from malaria and an opportunity for him to learn about his own family history as blood descendants of Jesus and the Merovingian Line of Kings who ruled France for over 600 years. Having never shown any interest in his family background, he finds himself at first skeptical of this other history that two secret societies had held as historical fact, the Prior de Sion and the Blonde Acquitaine, but after pieces begin to fall into place and more facts come to light he begins his own paradigm shift that takes him farther away from the dogma of Rome and his own beliefs of his Anglican denomination.
For the reader the experience of the Cathedral of Truth is a similar journey, one of disbelief and doubt, to consideration to finally a different way of seeing the events in the New Testament, the Book of Jeremiah and the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament and how it is entirely possible Jesus survived the crucifixion and joined his twin brother in northern India where they both lived out their final days.
The Cathedral of Truth is set to send ripples of awe and anger and discontent and gratification to the reading public across the world. Now translated into six languages, this book will find its rightful place in the canon of literature of historical non-fiction and adventure fiction. If one is looking for an original reading experience then don’t let this one slip through your fingers.