Where did Jesus go from the age of 12 to 30?
The Secret Books is an epic adventure of a young man in the Crimea who is drawn out of his world by an eccentric female journalist, leading to a life as a Russian spy infiltrating anarchist circles and going undercover in British India where, seeking refuge from a confrontation with a British officer, he discovers a manuscript which holds the secret of Jesus' lost years.
But is this gospel true?
Marcel Theroux takes the reader on spellbinding journey through 19th-century Paris, the Russian Empire and high plateau of India through a world of spies and double cross, propaganda and revolutionary violence, lost-love and anti-semitism, and into a modern world where lies have the power of truth.
Based on real events,
The Secret Books is at once a page-turning adventure, a meditation on the nature of belief and an examination of the stories that humans are willing to kill and die for.
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Publisher
Faber & FabereBook ISBN
9780571281954
Year
2017Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- 1: LOST BOY
- 2: THE SAVIOUR ON BLOOD
- 3: THE SECRET BOOKS
- 4: CONVOY SIXTY-EIGHT
- Afterword
- About the Author
- Also by the Author
- Copyright