Crooked Lines

Can an ordinary person relying on faith and the help of friends escape a secret intelligence organization in an era where the trappings of surveillance are everywhere?It is the late 2020s. Authoritarian governments have gained power around the world and the planet heads toward a climate disaster. An international scientific and cultural organization calls together popular religious leaders to take a stand against these governments. They produce a statement called Project 28 which condemns models of authoritarian leadership and urges action to halt climate change proposing a new way to the future. But as they leave their final meeting at a secret location north of Washington D.C. a car bomb kills all but one of them. The U.S. government blames unnamed terrorists and the lone survivor Bishop Donovan knows he is a marked man. With options running out the clergyman-disguised as a street person-connects with two unlikely companions-an Asian monk and a former pro-football player. They devise a plan to escape the clandestine intelligence agency that wants to silence the project-and the Bishop-forever. As he risks everything to share Project 28 with the world on Scotlands sacred island of Iona Bishop Donovans fate becomes a question . . . with the answer written in crooked lines.