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The Guardians
Author: Caoimghin Padraig Muireadhach [a.k.a L, A. Murray]

THE GUARDIANS is a novel about a secret society of forty men founded by The Last Essene, Jude, in 101 A.D. After guarding and guiding for fourteen centuries, in the fifteenth century it disappeared abruptly and all its works was lost to history. In the Third Millennium, Dr. Connor Stratton, ArchaeoHistorian, came across the Guardian Society whil... more »e searching through Shroud of Turin Records. The discovery leads him through in depth studies of seven time periods and seven leaders, one of whom had extrapolated his future existence. He falls in love with him. This drives him to continue his researches even though it runs him afoul of another, a more dangerous, a murdering society that kills his companions and hospitalized him. Driven by fear of one, and hopeless love for another, he finally uncovers all the secrets and ArchaeoHistorian or a Nobel Laureate could wish for. This tale is (succinctly put) the story of Connor Stratton, an ArchaeoHistorian who, on a talk show, is challenged to prove an allegation. In searching ancient records, he discovers the existence of a secret society dating from the times of the Apostles and the Essenes. In following threads of seven of its seven protagonists, and antagonists, across sixteen hundred years and three continents, he finds records of Marisha, a ninth century woman who had invented the science that he and a Nobel Committee believes is his twenty-first century discovery. On learning more of Marisha, Connor falls in love with the girl and is shocked to read that she was in love with him. In his search, a second secret society discovers him and vows to kill him and his companions. "Quis costodiet ipsos Custodes?" 'Who then is to guard the guardians themselves' scolds this age-old epigram? Two millennia later, Connor Stratton unearths its surprising answer: The Guardian guards the Guardians! While illustrating ArchaeoHistory on a TV talk show, Professor Stratton had been schemed into delving through Knights Templar records to answer a simple historical question. In scant days, the probe evolves into a quest leading ineluctably towards an impossible love while paper-trailing a dangerous mystery: a two-thousand-year-old secret society, one apparently altruistic that employed merciless tactics. In digging into its roots, he feels himself being deftly manoeuvered though the six corners of that alliance's world. It is from Damascus' and Gedrosia's ancient coffers that tragedy and terror befall him and his friends. Inescapably, he is drawn to an eighth-century woman whose apparent prescience electrifies him, and whose presumed aftermaths appall him. Step-by-step, Connor drives himself to sift each obscure clue the woman is specifically leaving for him. Using the fundamental theorems of his ArchaeoHistory, the professor uncovers vignettes of that ancient society, its plan, and its secret. But the one who still lies hidden is Marisha, the society's only woman leader: every trace of her had been torturously removed from history's pages. Bringing high technology to the hunt, he's astounded to learn that she, a Syrian girl of the 'Dark Ages', had first laid out ArchaeoHistory's ten theorems thereby daunting his Nobel Prize aspiration. Driven all the more, he follows her clues. On reaching Damascus, his expedition is murderously attacked; his companions knifed to death, he is critically wounded by men holding to an ancient injunction from one Leah of that sect. Upon recovering, his mind ravels through Jude the Essene, Michel the Gaul, Felipe the Translator, a French Abbe, an Irish Monk and even Leah.The exploration that began in 40 AD mysteriously ends in the fifteenth century. Connor almost gives up his research until he finds a note sent to him by Marisha of the ninth century. The spell of Marisha forces him to continue his quest - even while realizing that his life as a cutting edge scientist a

ISBN-13: 9780972214902
ISBN-10: 0972214909
Publication Date: 9/1/1989
Pages: 572
Edition: 2
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Publisher: Sts. Jude imPress
Book Type: Hardcover
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