{"product_id":"9781469111490","title":"The Mark of Gnosis","description":"\u003cbr\u003e THE MARK OF GNOSIS is a murder mystery set in a Trappist Abbey in Wyoming. Mark Maguire, the investigating detective, is a former Catholic priest, turned atheist, who is undergoing a deep, spiritual change due to the deaths of his sister and his companion, Elizabeth, who died of breast cancer. While in the abbey, he encounters a saintly abbot, a monk possessed by a devil, a witty and eccentric exorcist, an exorcism in which a haunting sin of his youth is revealed and an evil monk who is a reincarnated Gnostic heretic from the fourth century who has formed a cabalah in the abbey with a small group of monks. The main plot focuses on the murder investigation and its solution but a subplot concerns Maguireâs intense spiritual journey back to God if not to the church. In conversations with the abbot, Maguire abandons his bitterness towards the church.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177698214128,"sku":"9781469111490","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781469111490_p0.jpg?v=1763698565","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781469111490","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}