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August 21, 2008 Author's |
Book DisplayThe Code
 by Jay Curtis | Availability |
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THE CODE A NOVEL BY JAY CURTIS THE CODE is an action adventure story about Islamic fundamentalist terrorism, encripted messages decyphered from the Old Testament, a doomsday nuclear bomb that could destroy the West. It is a modern thriller about today's troubled world. In 1997, Michael Drosnin, an investigative reporter, wrote The Bible Code, a nonfiction account of the work of cryptographers and other scientists who put modern computer decryption technology to the task of deciphering a purported hidden code in the Torah, which reveals everything about the future of everyone. Although it has its critics and detractors, the book and the work it details are both credible, if not indisputable, and startling, if not downright frightening. The concept of such hidden predictions was one Sir Isaac Newton spent most of his life devoted to unraveling, but he failed at what he believed was his true, God-given mission in life. Only the advent of the modern computer with its light speed calculations made it possible to “crack the code.” In ancient Persia, it was rumored that sacred Islamic bowls given by The Prophet Mohammed himself to certain of his lieutenants had the power to heal. One such bowl exists today in the hands of one family, which traces its ancestry back to the royal family in Persia many hundreds of years ago. The bowl is remarkable, and the story of how it came down through the years to present is also fascinating. During the development of Star Wars by President Reagan, intelligence reports hinted that Soviet Chairman Brezhnev entertained the idea of developing a superbomb as an answer to the Star Wars shield, which the Soviets could never afford to deploy even if the technology were handed to them by Reagan. No one knows exactly how far the Soviets progressed, but the theory was that instead of imploding inward and converting the nuclear material in the bomb from matter to energy, releasing the power we know as a hydrogen bomb, this superbomb would also convert the debris incinerated in its path from matter to energy, thereby continuing the nuclear reaction over an incredible distance destroying at the least half a continent, and at the worst, a doomsday device that could literally incinerate the entire earth. What actually happened with the prospects of developing this device is unknown. Islam is a religion that believes in its own propagation by war. This is a fundamental tenant of Islamic faith. Some Muslims disavow it, claiming Jihad is simply to protect the faith from attack, but the writings of Islam, including the Koran, clearly support Jihad to expand the faith. Taking these nonfiction elements, the novel is a fictional account about the Bible Code and Gabriel Herald, a successful forty-five-year-old investigative reporter, whose books have exposed oil conspiracies and chemical dumping and who has repeatedly uncovered corporate evildoers. His work has helped their victims obtain justice and compensation. Gabriel is lured to London by the Newton Society, an organization founded by Isaac Newton’s students after his death, devoted to pursuing his effort to decipher the Torah’s hidden code. They offer to pay Herald handsomely if he can disprove the validity of their newly decrypted messages from the Torah. But, this is just a ruse, because as unlikely a savior as Gabriel is in the eyes of most, a gay man with a propensity for young men half his age, he is identified repeatedly in the deciphered messages as a man with a most important mission, to prevent the predicted Armageddon. A totally unlikely hero, and a man in shock and disbelief, a reluctant savior, a man who wants none of the sacrifice he learns he must make, Gabriel nevertheless becomes convinced of the validity of the messages and the necessity of his involvement. And, his sacrifice is significant, because on the way to London, he meets an eager, an adorable, an exciting, and, for him, a totally perfect young man with whom he nearly instantly falls in love, a young man whose own life reveals a sinister, selfish boy, whose pretense of innocence and sweetness is compelling but still mostly an act. But he is a young man who, at the death of his mother, has a personality altering epiphany when he realizes those around him are not the people and characters he remembers as imposing on his happiness but, instead, have been those to whom he owed love and support, which he regrettably, remorsefully held back. Gabriel—going to London for he knows not what—finds him and then loses him, all in a matter of days, while he is consumed by his new mission. Mohammed’s family was displaced as Israel was formed and Palestine was destroyed. His relatives killed, his family business and wealth lost, and a devout Muslim who, among only a handful of men on earth, can trace his ancestry back to the Prophet Mohammed himself, he joined the forces of the world’s most successful terrorist, depending on him for everything—his home, his food, his family’s support. He is given the task of fulfilling an Islamic prophesy, to make the sun rise in the West and bring about the final Hour mentioned in the Holy Koran, the hour when all the world will come to Islam and be judged by Allah. His mentor, a very wealthy and dedicated radical Islamist, who acquired the superbomb from the Russian generals who sequestered it away at Brezhnev’s death, intends to send Mohammed to ignite it in America, making the events of September 11, 2001, look like child’s play. He believes his mission is holy and mandated by the Koran, and he selects Mohammed, in whose veins the blood of the Prophet runs, a man whose blood mixed with water, in the holy bowl handed down from the very time of the Prophet Mohammed himself, cures his leader of a cancer about to kill him—he selects Mohammed to be the hand that sets off the light of lights, to make the sun rise in the West, for this bomb’s light will be as bright as the sun. In dreams and in messages from the Author of the Bible Code, who, through a novel application of computer technology to the astonishment of all, speaks to Gabriel and his associates directly, Gabriel is given his marching orders. He is assisted by many, some of whom sacrifice their lives. He and he alone must figure out how to prevent this catastrophe of biblical proportions. And in dreams, so too is Mohammed given revelations, which ultimately make him question his mission and bring him directly face to face with Gabriel. After the death of Mohammed’s leader, and by the strangest of methods, Gabriel is able to turn Mohammed from the dark side to the light, away from his mission of destruction of biblical proportions, but perhaps not in time to save the world, because the superbomb has been lodged in the basement of a restaurant in West Hollywood, California, the center of all evil in the eyes of Mohammed’s leader, the center of the homosexual perversity so alien to Islam, the center of the motion picture industry that is so corrupt in its sexual exploitation and pornography in the eyes of Islam, the center of Jewish exploitation, which supports Israel and all its persecutions of the sons of the Prophet Mohammed, the singular place to ignite the light of lights and fulfill the prophesy in the Koran of the sun rising in the West. And, once the switch is flipped, which Mohammed’s own hand reluctantly does, there is no diffusing the bomb. Forty-eight hours from being started, it will explode, without fail. Can this catastrophy of biblical proportions be averted? What the world faces in this fictional account is only just a little farther away from what we must actually face today in reality. How we deal with these threats, where we go as a race of humans, the nature of reality itself, and the concept of the Supreme Being, be he called God or some other name, these are explored in THE CODE. While everything in the book is fiction, reality and man’s future may not be all that different than the path set out for our characters in this novel, none of whom are evil in their own minds, all of whom are devout and dedicated in their beliefs, and each of whom, because of his dedication, is capable of potentially destroying the world. | |
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