Publisher's Synopsis
On the Sunday before Christmas, in the English town of Ashford, a mysterious cone of light beams down from the night sky and reveals what appears to be the figure of the returned Jesus.
The alien controllers of this gigantic deception planned the fake Second Coming of Christ as a spectacular vision on a scale that would convince even the most sceptical that the Son of God had made his prophesied return to Earth. What they hoped would follow was the rise of Christian fundamentalism and the revival of religious intolerance.
Their purpose? To suppress science as the dominant belief system and discredit the imminent release of scientific proof of their covert operations on Earth.
Our scientists had discovered the unaccountable rapidity of the emergence of life so soon after the long bombardment, and the novel evolutionary pathways created by previously inexplicable mass extinctions were all artificially created.
For millennia, the controllers have secretly manipulated our understanding of reality and created drama-filled screenplays in which we were unwitting actors with illusory free will. This low-level entertainment was distributed to audiences throughout the sentient universe for profit. Morally corrupt, the controllers have no standards or purpose, other than to create revenue for their business empire.
Taking inspiration from the Spanish Inquisition of the seventeenth century and its effectiveness in crushing any scientific theory that opposed their worldview, the controllers planned to discredit science as the dominant explanatory method and replace it with religion.
Michael, a man with a mysterious past who fought to stop the alien deception, is astonished to find out at the climax of the action that his trusted mentor, Davis, wanted the controllers to succeed in their plan. The reason for this and the world-changing consequences if Davis had failed to engineer the right ending astonish Michael and make him question his identity. It seemed that he was only ever an actor playing a part in a more important story by Davis, but the truth goes much further. We are all players in a chaotic dreamscape that prevents us from experiencing reality.
