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writer, da vinci legacy, daughter of god : lperdue@ideaworx.com
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New from Tor, Jan. 2004: The ORIGINAL (1983) Da Vinci art-and-religion thriller, ("fine plotting"-L.A. Times). Contact Natasha Kern. natasha@natashakern.com
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To learn more about the Dan Brown/Random House copyright infringement litigation, please visit The Da Vinci Crock blog and the Litigation Resources Page which has copies of all court filings.
I've written 20 published books including 13 novels which have collectively sold more than 4 million copies.
Book number 20, Perfect Killer will be published in September by Forge/St. Martin's Press.
Perfect Killer is a departure, being two books on one: a Southern novel wrapped up in a thriller (or vice versa).
I am also involved in a legal battle with Random House over Da Vinci Code's plagiarism of my work. Information on that can be found at http://www.davincicrock.blogspot.com and http://www.davincilegacy.com/Infringement/
Information on my bestsellers can be found here: http://www.davincilegacy.com/bestsellerQandA.shtml
I've taught journalism at UCLA and Cornell, founded four companies including a wine company, a magazine which remains the top trade publication for the North American wine industry, and two technology firms.
I have served as a top aide to a U.S. Senator and a governor, worked as a Washington correspondent (Ottaway/Dow-Jones, States News Service), a columnist for the Wall Street Journal Online, CBS Marketwatch and TheStreet.Com and write book reviews for Barron's.
My writing has been published in Forbes ASAP, Barron's, California Business, California Magazine, LA Magazine, The LA Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Washington Monthly, The Nation, PC World, InfoWorld, Publish!, Interactive Week, TechWeek, DigitalAge, Dr. Dobb's Journal, Embedded Systems Journal and Travel & Leisure among others.
I received my B.S. (1972) with distinction from Cornell where I studied biophysics and communications.
A full biography is at: http://ideaworx.com/who.html
More about my books at: http://www.lewisperdue.com
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General fiction
Mystery
Computers/technology
Business/investing/finance
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Travel
Science
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The Critics on Slatewiper
Booklist (with star)
Like the high-tech medical thrillers of Michael Crichton, this novel deftly combines hard science and narrative panache. Perdue has crafted a story that grips the reader's imagination: Can this be real? Is it possible for such a weapon to exist? Remarkably, Perdue unflinchingly treads on Crichton's turf but emerges with a novel that feels fresh and original. A must for medical-thriller devotees.
Tucson Citizen
Fact-based fiction that is gripping, suspenseful and highly readable.
Publisher's Weekly
A no-holds-barred biogenetic thriller. … In the light of current medical epidemics, this is a timely offering.
Kirkus Reviews
Rich research for science/action thrills.
The Critics on Daughter of God
Booklist
Perdue makes superb use of apocalyptic themes in what is an outstanding thriller on every level. This one will cause a lot of sleepless nights.
Kirkus Reviews
Former investigative journalist Perdue, who specialized in recovery of art missing in Europe offers a thriller about a world-shattering secret kept under wraps by the Catholic Church for more than 1600 years. Art broker and appraiser Zoe Ridgeway goes to Switzerland with her husband, Seth, a professor of comparative religion at UCLA, at the call of dying collector Willi Max, whose mansion is hung with lost masterworks. Max, a former Nazi entrusted with hiding stolen art, wants to atone for the Leonardos and Vermeers he has kept from human view and also for hiding documents from the time of Emperor Constantine that attest to the rise of a second Messiah during Constantine's reign, as well as of the existence of a second shroud, one perhaps even more convincing than the Shroud of Turin. Unhappily for the Church, this one holds the image of a female messiah. Soon after Max presents these documents to both Zoe, who receives them with feminist cynicism toward the Church, and Seth, a wavering believer, the works are stolen from them and Zoe is kidnapped. Cut to the Vatican, where the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) holds sway and defends the truth of the Faith against opposing truths, recalling the time when the maid Sophia arose, around the period of the editorial disputes of the Bishops of Nicea as they assembled Church doctrine, and began preaching, healing, and performing miracles before she was put to death to save ameliorative doctrine issued and enforced by Constantine. One doctrine: that Jesus was or is consubstantial with God. Sophia, or Wisdom, Perdue suggests, might well be the Logos of the Christian Trinity before it was decreed all male. Persuasively written, fact-based fiction that takes on an endlessly gripping subject matters of faith decided by political expediency rather than spiritual value. -- Copyright ©2000, Kirkus Associates, LP.
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Natasha Kern,
Natasha Kern Literary Agency
503-297-6190
natasha@natashakern.com
www.natashakern.com
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