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This is a multi-layered tale of historical detection; incorporating oral testimonies, recorded histories, official documents, letters, diaries, dreams and prophecies. As a novel, it presents a carefully crafted and insightful revision of actual events, offering a courageous departure from mainstream historical writing. Set against a contemporary backdrop, the main protagonists (Sonja Haas and Jason Tomas) travel through Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland, then on to Holland and England before returning to South Africa. Via various roadside encounters, including the startling revelations of a sangoma (a healer empowered by ancestors), they reconstruct the past and their own identities, with divergent consequences. When the Cape of Good Hope was still revered as the Portal to the Indies - the Viceroy of Portuguese-India was led ashore, attacked, slain and hurriedly buried in a shallow grave. The murder of Dom Francisco d'Almeida remains a mystery to this day. Was it the fulfilment of a prophecy or an act of poetic justice? Was it a mutiny, an ambush or perhaps an assassination? If so, was it instigated by the King of Portugal or the Church of Rome? These are the questions which Sonja and Jason set out to answer. As the main focaliser, Sonja's inner conflict reflects a passage from doubt to hope, echoing the transition from a Cape of Storms to the Cape of Good Hope. Like Sonja's search for herself, Knot of Stone is ultimately a tale of self-discovery. With its captivating mystery, and mixture of legend and established fact, and the karmic background of various well-known individuals in interpreting events, this is an enthralling book which will appeal to all those who have enjoyed the Dan Brown literary genre.

In the wake of 9/11, the events following a murder case that Jewish American-Danish lawyer Jon Baeksgaard is conducting for the defense of a Moslem client bring him and the co-workers of his small East village office into the midst of a tense political situation. "As world literature, Dalager has produced some of the best and most ambitious contemporary fiction of our time."--Dagens Nyheter, Sweden.

In this thought-provoking book, author L. Mason Jones brings to light the incredible mysteries that have been revealed in ancient literature and archaeological discoveries - anomalies that point to the existence of advanced human cultures who lived much further back in time than traditional archaeology, or the Bible, would have us believe.These stories of ancient human ingenuity are hinted-at in ancient writings and in orally-transmitted folklore, and are evidenced in archaeological sites and artifacts from across the globe and on every continent. Did you know, for example, that ancient Indian texts contain stories of wars that seem to have ben nuclear in their devastation? That many ancient cultures have texts that describe automatons? And that mechanisms thought to have been invented in the sixteenth century have been found as archaeological finds that are as old as 2,200 years? And the evidence goes far, far further back still.This book is perfect for anyone who is ready to open their minds to the possibilities that the ancients were far more modern, and far more ancient, then we have hitherto dared to believe.