The Cult of Relics

<p><em>The Cult of Relics</em> is a novel by Alan M. Kent (author of <em>Proper Job Charlie Curnow!</em> and <em>Electric Pastyland</em>). The story is set in Western Britain in the mid-1990s just after the Gulf War and tells of three extraordinary people: of the New-Age Traveller Jude Fox of the American photojournalist Eddie Hopkins and of the Cornish-born archaeologist Robert Bolitho. The three characters discover a set of connections between them stretching back to the early seventeenth century. Kent's intriguing story weaves together their disparate lives with that of the mysterious Stranger whose preservation of a curious holy relic becomes a focus for their collective need for communion and hope. </p>