The Code

About the Book

THE CODE

A NOVEL BY JAY CURTIS

THE CODE is an action adventure story about Islamic fundamentalist terrorism, encripted messages decyphered from the Old Testament, a doomsday nuclear bomb that could destroy the West. It is a modern thriller about today's troubled world.

In 1997, Michael Drosnin, an investigative reporter, wrote The Bible Code, a nonfiction account of the work of cryptographers and other scientists who put modern computer decryption technology to the task of deciphering a purported hidden code in the Torah, which reveals everything about the future of everyone. Although it has its critics and detractors, the book and the work it details are both credible, if not indisputable, and startling, if not downright frightening. The concept of such hidden predictions was one Sir Isaac Newton spent most of his life devoted to unraveling, but he failed at what he believed was his true, God-given mission in life. Only the advent of the modern computer with its light speed calculations made it possible to “crack the code.”

In ancient Persia, it was rumored that sacred Islamic bowls given by The Prophet Mohammed himself to certain of his lieutenants had the power to heal. One such bowl exists today in the hands of one family, which traces its ancestry back to the royal family in Persia many hundreds of years ago. The bowl is remarkable, and the story of how it came down through the years to present is also fascinating.

During the development of Star Wars by President Reagan, intelligence reports hinted that Soviet Chairman Brezhnev entertained the idea of developing a superbomb as an answer to the Star Wars shield, which the Soviets could never afford to deploy even if the technology were handed to them by Reagan. No one knows exactly how far the Soviets progressed, but the theory was that instead of imploding inward and converting the nuclear material in the bomb from matter to energy, releasing the power we know as a hydrogen bomb, this superbomb would also convert the debris incinerated in its path from matter to energy, thereby continuing the nuclear reaction over an incredible distance destroying at the least half a continent, and at the worst, a doomsday device that could literally incinerate the entire earth. What actually happened with the prospects of developing this device is unknown.

Islam is a religion that believes in its own propagation by war. This is a fundamental tenant of Islamic faith. Some Muslims disavow it, claiming Jihad is simply to protect the faith from attack, but the writings of Islam, including the Koran, clearly support Jihad to expand the faith.

Taking these nonfiction elements, the novel is a fictional account about the Bible Code and Gabriel Herald, a successful forty-five-year-old investigative reporter, whose books have exposed oil conspiracies and chemical dumping and who has repeatedly uncovered corporate evildoers. His work has helped their victims obtain justice and compensation. Gabriel is lured to London by the Newton Society, an organization founded by Isaac Newton’s students after his death, devoted to pursuing his effort to decipher the Torah’s hidden code. They offer to pay Herald handsomely if he can disprove the validity of their newly decrypted messages from the Torah. But, this is just a ruse, because as unlikely a savior as Gabriel is in the eyes of most, a gay man with a propensity for young men half his age, he is identified repeatedly in the deciphered messages as a man with a most important mission, to prevent the predicted Armageddon. A totally unlikely hero, and a man in shock and disbelief, a reluctant savior, a man who wants none of the sacrifice he learns he must make, Gabriel nevertheless becomes convinced of the validity of the messages and the necessity of his involvement. And, his sacrifice is significant, because on the way to London, he meets an eager, an ador

About the Author

JAY CURTIS is an attorney who lives and works in Southern California. This is his first novel, which is a unique look at traditional values and exciting, frightening possibilities.