Sistina

<center><b><i>Come and look upon these things</br> so that you may understand and believe.</i></b></center></p> <p><i>Sistina</i> Brian Kenneth Swain?s gripping and thought-provoking new novel is a story two thousand years in the making. The events set in motion following Christ?s crucifixion build to a crescendo during the Italian High Renaissance and will test the faith of the story?s historical and modern-day characters as well as that of readers.</p> <p>When a violent earthquake damages Michelangelo?s magnificent frescoes a team of experts undertakes the Vatican?s most important restoration in centuries only to discover a perplexing secret hidden for five hundred years beneath the chapel?s plaster ceiling. The message both cryptic and incomplete due to the rash actions of a tourist at the time of the quake baffles the team and awakens the attention of a small group of powerful men?men who have waited centuries in the shadows hoping for the elusive clue that will lead them to Christendom?s ultimate artifact.</p> <p>It is a tale of murder revenge ecclesiastical connivance and ancient secrets?all constructed on an elaborate foundation of religious history political intrigue and technological wizardry. <i>Sistina</i> Swain?s most controversial novel to date will leave you breathless.</p>