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Messiah
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781524595104
Publisher: Xlibris Corp
Published: Dec 12 2016
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This is set in 1947, amid the turmoil of the British withdrawal from India after centuries of rule. A report is received at the offices of a London Fleet Street newspaper about a mystical boy who is performing miracles and is said to be the new Messiah.
A world-weary journalist, Arthur Green, is sent to investigate, and he finds a web of intrigue, lies, deceit, and love. He follows the boy to a cholera camp where although weary from exhaustion, he thinks he sees the boy perform a miracle. A mysterious sect of government ministers and powerful business leaders called the Murghal is intent on promoting the boy for their own benefit--at any cost.
As pilgrims start to flock to the boy, Arthur has to decide if he can believe what he has seen, if he can believe in the power of belief.
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