Barth Anderson

Hace años Jeremiah Rosemont dejó atrás las amargas rivalidades del mundo académico. Ahora vive una existencia sencilla e itinerante en Centroamérica. Pero no puede dejar atrás su pasado... ni la peligrosa verdad que se esconde tras el abandono de sus estudios. Siguiendo una enigmatica invitacion a Roma, Rosemont se encuentra en el centro de un misterio que se remonta hasta la caida de Troya, la busqueda de un tesoro mistico por el que muchos estan dispuestos a sacrificar su fortuna y su vida: la primera baraja de tarot conocida. A medida que Rosemont profundiza en los origenes del tarot, su destino se entrelaza con el del Rey Niño, un indigente dotado de un don inenarrable... y de un pasado misterioso. Para estos dos hombres, las cartas lo revelaran todo.

In this biological thriller of the near future, postinsurrection Mexico has undermined the superpower of the United States. But while the rivals battle over borders, a pestilence beyond politics threatens to explode into a worldwide epidemic. . . . Since the rise of the Holy Renaissance, Ascensiononce known as Mexico Cityhas become the most populous city in the world, its citizens linked to a central government net through wetware implanted in their brains. But while their dictator grows fat with success, the masses are captivated by Sister Domenica, an insurgent nun whose weekly pirate broadcasts prophesy a wave of death. All too soon, Domenicas nightmarish prediction proves true, and Ascensions hospitals are overrun with victims of a deadly fever. As the rampant plague kills too quickly to be contained, Mexico smuggles its last hope over the violently contested border. . . . Henry David Stark is a crack virus hunter for the American Center for Disease Control and a veteran of global humanitarian efforts. But this disease is unlike any hes seen beforeand there seems to be no way to cure or control it. Racing against time, Stark battles corruption to uncover a horrifying truth: this is no ordinary outbreak but a deliberately unleashed man-made virus . . . and the killer is someone Stark knows.

For hundreds of years, men have sought their hidden futures in the legendary images of the tarotbut what secrets of the past are harbored by the priestess, the magician, the hanged manand the fool? The author of the explosive The Patron Saint of Plagues returns with a richly textured mystical mystery exploring the dark heart of one of our oldest traditions.Years ago, fallen scholar Jeremiah Rosemont left the bitter rivalries of academia behind and now lives a simple nomadic existence in South America, far from the arguments that once defined his life. But he cant outrun his pastor the dangerous truth that lurks beneath his abandoned studies. Following an enigmatic summons to Rome, Rosemont finds himself at the center of a mystery that dates back to the fall of Troy, the pursuit of a mystical treasure many are willing to sacrifice fortunes and lives for: the earliest known tarot deck. As Rosemont delves deeper and deeper into the tarots unsettling secret origins, his own fate is inexorably intertwined with that of the Boy King, a homeless man with an unspeakable giftand a mysterious past of his own. For these two menand the demons, dupes, and power seekers drawn to themthe cards will reveal everything, even the shattering, unseen truths of human life itself.