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Codex
Codex is a postmodern mystery thriller that begins with a startling discovery beneath the volcanic rock of La Garrotxa. A mummified knight, sealed in lava, is unearthed clutching an armoured puzzle-box containing three ancient scrolls—two offering a radically different account of the New Testament, the third written on human skin.
Drawn into this mystery is Xavier de Torrent de Tête, the “Librarian of Lost Books,” whose rare expertise is vital to unlocking what the scrolls reveal. As word of the find spreads, religious zealots and shadowy orders close in, determined to seize the texts for their own ends. From Catalonia’s surreal landscapes to the corridors of faith and power, Codex is a labyrinth of history, obsession, and the peril of truths too great to control.
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INFINITI
Limitless in Name and Ambition, INFINITI is a Coming of Age novel like no other, the author taking us on an overarching sweep from pre-history, through life as a Cambridge undergraduate in the swinging sixties and seventies, into politics and high office and ultimately, as it says, to infinity.
But, unlike other Coming of Age novels, Cohen sprinkles a little of the magic we have since come to expect of him.
The narrator is locked inside the novel and the only way he can escape is by persuading one of the other protagonists to finish off writing it for him. But the book can only change hands at one point: the point where the parallel lines meet. Of course, that should be an impossibility. But, Philip G Cohen actually makes it happen by bending complex double time schemes, riddles, mathematical formulae and a little sleight-of-hand. The fine line between the author and the magician is a blurred one.
The ending, at the point where the parallel lines meet, is breathtaking and every step of the journey to that destination is spellbinding. A book as much about the journey as the destination.
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THE GATE OF THE BURNT ONE
The Gate of the Burnt One frames the story in a unique and humorous way. The alternate reality is depicted in the pages of a screenplay for a movie being produced and shot by the book’s main characters. The story begins with a film crew in Morocco’s Sahara Desert encountering numerous obstacles in their production – the director has overdone it on local kif, the scriptwriters have abandoned the set, and the lead actor has barricaded himself inside his trailer.
Tinctorio Indigolin, a businessman who has made billions from cryptocurrency, agrees to finance the stalled production in an attempt to leverage a tax loss, all the while dodging attempts on his life by an Irish assassin. The filming resumes, and, each night, a captivating screenplay created by a mysterious writer appears on set, page by page, depicting the alternate world where the Reconquista never succeeded. As the screenplay unfolds, it transforms the lives of everyone involved in the film. Various twists, assassinations, and narrow escapes unfold, mirroring the collapse of the Moorish Kingdoms.