Author: Vincent Czyz
Publisher: Blank Slate Press
Date of publication:October 2015
A suspicious death in Istanbul leaves one ancient scroll and
clues to finding another in the hands of Drew Korchula, a thirty-two-year-old
American ex-pat, a Turkish dwarf named Kadir, and Zafer, a Special Forces
washout. Drew is desperate to turn everything over to the academic community,
and in the process redeem himself in the eyes of his estranged wife, but Kadir
and Zafer are only interested in what they can get for the scrolls on the black
market. None of them anticipated a coven of shadowy Church operatives
determined to prevent the revelations embodied in the priceless manuscripts
from ever going public.
An action-packed, intellectual thriller unraveling a
theological cold case more than two thousand years old, The Christos
Mosaic is a monumental work of biblical research wrapped in a story of
love, faith, human frailty, friendship, and forgiveness. The novel takes the
reader through the backstreets of Istanbul, Antakya (ancient Antioch), and
Cairo, to clandestine negotiations with wealthy antiquities smugglers
and ruthless soldiers of fortune, to dusty Egyptian monasteries, on a
nautical skirmish off the coast of Alexandria, and finally to the ruins
of Constantine’s palace buried beneath the streets of present-day Istanbul.
About Vincent Czyz
Vincent Czyz is the author of The Christos Mosaic,
a novel, and Adrift in a Vanishing City, a collection of short
fiction. He received two fellowships from the NJ Council on the Arts and the W.
Faulkner-W. Wisdom Prize for Short Fiction. The 2011 Truman Capote Fellow at
Rutgers University, his stories and essays have appeared in New England
Review, Shenandoah,AGNI, The Massachusetts Review, Tin House(online), Boston
Review, Quiddity, The Tampa Review, The Georgetown Review, and Skidrow
Penthouse, among other publications. He spent a total of nearly a decade in
Istanbul, Turkey before settling in Jersey City. His work often deals with the
existential themes found in art, myth and religion, dreams, and primal ways of
perceiving the world.
Purchase Links
Vincent Czyz’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:
Monday, February 8th: It’s
A Mad Mad World
Thursday, February 11th: Bibliotica
Monday, February 15th: From the TBR Pile
Wednesday, February 17th: Ace and Hoser Blog
Monday, March 7th: Life
is Story
Thursday, March 24th: Patricia’s Wisdom
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