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At the dawning of the twenty-first century a microchip driven super-civilisation
hurtles towards an abyss of its own making. Has it all happened before, in the distant mists of time?
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Alexander: Hall of the Gods was inspired by a true story and exciting recent discoveries in the fields of parapsychology
and archaeology.
Set between the late nineteenth century and the present day, Hall of the Gods is a tale of
obsession and revenge that revolves around the themes of the paranormal, the occult, Freemasonry and Egyptology.
Present
day: Alexander, orphaned under mysterious circumstances, does not know where to turn when he unearths a terrible truth. Due
to his phenomenal intellect, he successfully enrolls as an undergraduate at the University of Oxford at age thirteen. Here
begins a fateful relationship with tempestuous accident-prone academic Frank Malone.
Frank Malone's volcanic temper
gets him into a lot of trouble. A road-rage incident leads to his abduction by three masked leather-clad assailants. Narrowly
escaping with his life, he stumbles upon a deserted house and finds an object that will ultimately lead Alexander on a strange
and disturbing quest.
Alexander manages to unearth the location of his ancestral family home and journeys there with
his tutor, Frank Malone. Breaking into the eerie abandoned mansion they stumble across the journals of a Victorian Baron.
The journals tell a compelling story.
Nineteenth century: Shortly after his initiation into the Brotherhood of Freemasons,
Baron Algernon Northgate learns of the fabled ‘Lost Hall of Records’ in Egypt. The Hall is believed to contain
the secrets of a highly advanced civilisation, destroyed during the catastrophic global changes (earthquakes, volcanic eruptions,
tidal waves and enormous rises in sea level) that occurred at the end of the last ice age. Determined to find the Hall of
Records, the Baron spends many years in Egypt where he makes a number of remarkable discoveries.
Unfortunately for
Baron Northgate, his uncovering of an ancient Egyptian tomb unleashes a deadly curse. Ultimately, Alexander finds out that
he is the last surviving descendant of the Baron, and must battle the curse or die. In a desperate race against time the boy
must discover the origin of the curse and a way to defeat it. Things get progressively worse for the hapless Frank Malone
and he ultimately becomes embroiled in Alexander's struggle to survive.
On one level, Hall of the Gods is a
fast paced action-adventure thriller On another level, Hall of the Gods is a thought-provoking exploration of human
consciousness and the mysteries associated with the enigmatic Gizza plateau.
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GM Masterson
I was born in England, but
spent much of my childhood and youth living in a small seaport town close to Dublin in the Republic of Ireland. With my sights
set on Trinity College, my family unexpectedly returned to England and I found myself studying and working in London.
On
holiday, years ago now, I detoured through Oxford and fell in love with the place. Eventually I got a job at the University
as an academic/scientist. I have lived in the ancient city ever since.
Although I have published extensively in the
field of Science, ALEXANDER: HALL OF THE GODS is my first novel. Over five years in the making, three of them research,
Hall of the Gods was hard work - harder than I ever could have imagined, but a grand adventure nonetheless.
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