All life on Earth today stems from one spark, one place…
Ambitious geologist Ross Kelly has it all: a lucrative career as an oil search consultant and a beautiful wife, Lauren, a brilliant Yale language academic, who has just translated the most mysterious document in the world, the legendary 400-year-old Voynich cipher manuscript (a genuine manuscript which resides in Yale’s Beinecke Library and has confounded experts for centuries).
Then an attempt to steal the translation leaves Lauren in a coma, hovering between life and death.
In the depths of despair, Ross is approached first by a sinister priest and then by a mysterious nun. Their obsession with the Voynich manuscript forces him to re-examine the mysterious document, which dates back to the conquest of the New World and chronicles the discovery of an ancient place so miraculous and terrible that it rewrites the beginning of the bible. To save Lauren he decides to abandon everything else in his life and seek out this mythical El jardin del Dios – the garden of god.
Racing against time and a fanatical priest desperate to claim the garden for his church, Ross’s journey leads him to discover one of science’s most holy grails: the source of all life on Earth, an Eden so magical and potent that it shatters the certainties of both science and religion.
Michael Cordy worked for ten years in marketing before giving it all up to write his first novel, THE MIRACLE STRAIN (re-titled as THE MESSIAH CODE), which became an international bestseller and sold in 25 languages. He is also the author of LUCIFER (retitled as THE LUCIFER CODE), TRUE (retitled as THE VENUS CONSPIRACY) and CRIME ZERO (retitled as THE CRIME CODE).