Because author Douglas Preston is a good friend to The Poisoned Pen Bookstore, I’m sharing part of his recent newsletter. Some of it pertains directly to the bookstore.
All of the message below is a direct quote from the newsletter.
The Bronze Skull
Greetings Readers!
I wanted to share something special with you.
I have written a thriller with my daughter, Aletheia, entitled PARADOX, which will be released on April 21. To mark the debut of this fantastic new literary partnership, the Poisoned Pen Bookstore is offering a specially printed, limited first edition of PARADOX, personally signed by both of us. This edition is available for pre-order at the regular retail price, plus shipping.
Our publisher has also launched a sweepstakes to give away the massive bronze skull pictured above. Just fill out the entry form at this link. You don’t have to buy anything. The sweepstakes are open to anyone in the US and Canada (except Quebec).
And now, let me tell you a little about PARADOX.
The story opens with an act of shocking desecration to one of the holiest relics in Christendom: someone has stolen a tiny piece of skull from the severed head of St. John the Baptist, displayed in a glass reliquary case in the Basilica di San Silvestro in Rome. From there, the narrative leaps to the ritualistic murder of a paranoid old prosector in Colorado, followed by the torture and dismemberment of a controversial exobiologist.
What could possibly connect these events?
They converge in a tale that is… how best to describe it?…reality-reframing and deeply unsettling. The title PARADOX derives, as some of you might have guessed, from the Fermi Paradox. Enough said. If you’d like a taste, you can read the first seven chapters of PARADOX by clicking the link below:
With my best,
Doug