Biblical
A Novel

Name: Biblical
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Christopher Galt
ISBN: 9781483018829

Author: Christopher Galt

Narrator: Ray Porter

Unabridged: 12 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 09/15/2014

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Science Fiction

Synopsis

In the tradition of Michael Crichton and Margaret Atwood comes this apocalyptic thriller that pits cutting-edge science against God and asks, who will win?A strange phenomenon is sweeping the globe. People are having visions, seeing angels, experiencing events that defy reality. Bizarre accounts pour in from distant places: a French teenager claims to have witnessed Joan of Arc being burned at the stake; a man in New York dies of malnutrition in a luxurious Central Park apartment; a fundamentalist Christian sect kidnaps and murders a geneticist.Then there is the graffito We Are Becoming that has popped up in every major city around the world, in every language. And everywhere people are starting to talk about John Astor, the mysterious author of the book that seems to be at the center of it all.After a rash of suicides around the world by individuals experiencing time-traveling hallucinations, psychiatrist John Macbeth and a team of FBI agents and scientists assemble to find out what's going on before it's too late. Is this a spiritual phenomenon—or something more sinister?

About Christopher Galt

Christopher Galt is the pseudonym of Craig Russell, whose mystery novels have been translated into twenty-three languages and have won many prestigious awards, including the CWA Dagger in the Library. In 2007 he was nominated for the CWA Duncan Lawrie Golden Dagger as well as the Prix SNCF Polar in France. He was recently nominated for the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger.

About Ray Porter

Ray Porter is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator and fifteen-year veteran of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He has appeared in numerous films and television shows, including Almost Famous, ER, and Frasier.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Liz on July 26, 2014

Publication Date: May 1st from Quercus. Thank you to the author and publisher for the copy via a Goodreads Giveaway. An apocalyptic thriller on an epic scale that will make you question your own reality. All around the world, people start to see things that aren’t there, that cannot be. Visions, ghosts......more

Goodreads review by Suzanne on May 03, 2014

Having read a few reviews of this book, the one phrase that keeps cropping up is ‘mind-bending’. In the interests of originality, I was determined not to use that phrase myself when reviewing this book. So having just finished reading it, how can I best describe it? Well, er, mind-bending. It really......more

Goodreads review by Paula on December 26, 2015

This is not a 3 star book- It is a book with a 5 star start- most of it in fact. The first 4/5 are such a great combination of science and theory and exciting events and solid, on-point story telling with nary a hole in sight- impossible to pick apart or put down. But man-oh-man does Galt shit the b......more

Goodreads review by Michele on October 17, 2015

I'm not sure I can even put my thoughts about this book into words. Do I even need to? Do we really exist to read it, or is this book, and you, an elaborate a figment of my own imagination so I can survive in a reality of nothingness? Perhaps you've already read it, but don't know that yet. Oh, That......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on April 24, 2014

The opening scene had me hooked immediately with the depiction of a French teenager finding herself in amongst a crowd of people witnessing the execution of Joan d'Arc. She manages to take a picture of the horrific scene on her phone. Around the world people are experiencing hallucinations, having fe......more

Quotes

“A gruesomely gripping tale. It had me hooked.”

Piers Morgan

“The pseudonymous Galt, the author of two crimes series under his real name of Craig Russell, successfully juggles a wide cast of fully developed characters in this inventive near-future thriller…Few readers will anticipate the jaw-dropping conclusion, and fans of thoughtful scientific thrillers will hope Galt will continue in the genre.”

Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“As mind-bending as The Matrix, this smartly written, compelling, scientific novel has the power to unsettle our beliefs about the nature of existence.”

Library Journal (starred review)

“The intellectual premise and cautionary philosophy in Galt’s complexly plotted novel are worthy subjects. Be prepared for some heavy reading on the hubristic hypothesis that ‘science will make us God.’ A complex thriller with a cagey ‘what’d I miss?’ conclusion.”

Kirkus Reviews