SELECTED SCENES WITH COMMENTARY If you liked the religious heresy of The Da Vinci Code, you’ll love Second Eden!  “Outside, the afternoon was ablaze with a strong tropical sun. Insects buzzed and chirped, harmonizing in a crude metronomic rhythm with the ever-present low rumble of the falls and the barks and howls of the monkeys. For the natural world, it was just another day of life, of eat or be eaten.…” But it’s not just a book about African adventure... Sharabi’s bare arms were pimpled with goose bumps. The rose colored pre-dawn sky was cloudless. For a second, Roscha’s parting words the previous night caught in his mind. He shivered. We’ll concentrate on the lowest level we can reach today, he thought, as he dumped a streaming ribbon of sand from his boot, like the sand from an hourglass. Below, the day’s first prayers rose to Allah. Sharabi, as was his habit, took the binoculars and scanned the work area. As the prayers ended, the men began to congregate near the tents on the top of the bluff, instead of dispersing to their various work areas as usual. That’s odd, he thought. Moab always gave the men their orders for the day’s work the previous evening, so that work could begin without delay early the following morning. And there was Kopi, kicking up a cloud of dust as he ran up the hill toward him. What was he up to so early in the morning? “Great One!” the boy said, panting. “Moab is gone!” “Gone where?” “He took the boat!” But it’s not just a book about an archaeological dig in Iraq that gives clues to our secret beginnings and our long journey from the past... “On a night mission, his F-fourteen, along with Roy Corbett, had dribbled off the flight deck like a toy off a kitchen table and plunged over sixty feet to the water, then sank well beneath the surface before he managed to reach the ejection handle. Fortunately, the rocket-powered Martin-Baker seats had carried them out of the water and high enough for their chutes to deploy.”   But it’s not just a book about cutting-edge flying adventure… “Oh my God!” Molly gasped. “There’s more. Just yesterday, the stone at Mecca disappeared.” She felt a shiver and drew her Afghan up over her legs. “The one the Archangel Gabriel was supposed to have given Mohammed?” “Uh-huh.” “Who would want to—?” “No one knows who. Or how.” “There’ll be a war over that,” she stammered. “If Islam has been looking for the ultimate excuse for a Jihad against the West, they’ve got it now. Our war on terrorism will probably evolve into something much more awful, I’m afraid.” But it’s not just a book about Middle Eastern turmoil... “The Gypsy’s gaze lingered over a faded oval portrait of Christ, which hung beside a picture of Satan’s temptation of Eve in the Garden of Eden.  She made the sign of the cross and mumbled a prayer. When the Gypsy turned toward her, a gold talisman slung about her neck on a long gold chain amidst a bundle of colorful scarves caught Molly’s eye. It looked like an Egyptian ankh with a splayed extremity.  She loved jewelry, collected it, had even made some for friends, though she herself wore only a single gold locket; and she could not recall ever having seen anything quite like it. The Gypsy fingered it lovingly, presently sitting on a pillow across from her.” But it’s not just a book about the nature of prophesy... “Right now there is a bioengineering company called the Aquarian Genomic Research Center, a private research organization purportedly funded by a large American foundation. Openly, they are pursuing human cloning and the production of stem cells for compassionate medical purposes, to grow replacement organs for transplantation and the like. A noble cause if true. But in reality, they are funded by wealthy Islamic terrorists, and they are pursuing more nefarious ends. Two programs are well advanced.” But it’s not just a book about the ultimate act of terrorism.... Or the ultimate fate of life on Earth... It’s much, much more: It is a book about you. If you like Judgment-Day-thrillers but are put off by the closed-minded religious zealotry of books like Left Behind. If you liked the religious heresy of The Da Vinci Code.  If you liked the science and philosophy of Jurassic Park and the mystery and suspense of The Rule of Four. You’ll love Second Eden.  You’ll love Second Eden! “It’s a Left Behind for the secular masses, for the rest of us who believe in the possibility of cataclysmic watershed events in human history and who respect scientific knowledge, but who believe as well in spiritual wisdom and a purposeful human destiny.” Order SECOND EDEN