(how I came to write this novel)
“How I Became a World Citizen”
(a true confession)
(why I had to write what I did)
(A novelist’s faith)
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J R Lankford at The Sacred Impostor launch event on Dec 21, 2012, Feast Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe. The Monte Xanic Gran Ricardo ’09 features in an ardent scene in the thriller.
Twice optioned for Hollywood film, nominated for awards, and translated into five languages, THE JESUS THIEF is the first thriller in this series about an attempt to clone Jesus of Nazareth from DNA stolen from the Shroud of Turin. BOOKLIST dubbed it "great stuff" in a starred review. A pioneer cloning scientist, the late Dr. Robert H. Foote of Cornell, called it a "spellbinder."
Next came THE SECRET MADONNA where, on the shore of Italy’s beautiful Lake Maggiore, we learn the fate of the clone.
Now in the sizzling THE SACRED IMPOSTOR, culture, history and issues blend in a passionate plot as the novel explores human smuggling and the reasons for it, the ancient healing art of curanderismo, Mexican politics, the Virgin of Guadalupe tradition, and unfolds the mystical story of how the world reacts to rumors of a new Jesus clone.
Kirkus calls THE SACRED IMPOSTOR, "A fresh view of Mexican-American tensions … a new angle to the underside of illegal immigration … an often-ignored history of Mexican heritage."
From the penthouses and ethnic hubbub of New York, to the grand casas and poverty of Mexico City, from the Vatican to the altars of the Virgin of Guadalupe, new characters join the old and look south to Mexico while two women vie for love as a thrilling battle ensues over the second infant whose genes may be divine.
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