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    The Secret Second Coming
    The Secret Second Coming
    The Secret Second Coming
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    The Secret Second Coming

    By Greg Cudmore

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    After an inauspicious beginning, Christianity found its full voice in the Holy Roman Empire. Since then Christianity had splintered, decayed and self destructed. Some wondered if religion, like the planet, had runs its course and was doomed.
    It was time for another intervention. Unlike his predecessor two thousand years earlier, Jason Salvador was sent on a secret mission to investigate what had gone wrong. On no account was he to reveal his origins or interfere in Earth’s affairs. He was not sent to save the world, merely to observe.
    The Secret Second Coming is Jason’s story and records his unique observations of mankind, their culture and history. He endeavors to make sense of the best and worst of what humanity offers. He must decide whether human nature is predisposed towards good or evil and whether human beings have the intelligence and will to save their dying planet.
    Jason explores earthly customs, language, politics, religion, education and health. Despite his superior intelligence Jason struggles to make much sense of what he observes.
    But his journey is so much more than a detached academic study. Jason discovers what it is like to be human: to experience pain, heartbreak and disillusion, along with the joys and pleasures of love, sex, beauty and the unpredictability of everyday life on Earth.
    Jason’s saga ends in Florence where he is betrayed him into the hands of a sinister international organization, intent on using Jason’s genius for their own eugenic master-plan. Will his origins and mission be cruelly exposed? Jason’s impact on all he meets on his journey is profound, right up to the surprise climax to his story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGreg Cudmore
    Release dateDec 14, 2016
    ISBN9781370455683
    The Secret Second Coming
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    Greg Cudmore

    The author recently retired from teaching after 45 years at the chalk-face. He has always loved to write and has always been fascinated by human behavior, history and science. He has wanted to write ‘The Secret Second Coming’ all his life.He wrote a Legal Studies textbook ‘Computers and the Law’ which was published in 1994. He has written many articles for educational journals and been a columnist in regional newspapers.It is difficult to categorize my novel. Given the main character is an alien, it would be easy to regard it as science fiction. However the character of Jason is really a construct to explore human nature, relationships, politics, religion, education and culture. It seems more at home in a social science or philosophical science fiction genre.My intended audience is for educated adult readers who are interested in the human condition, the future of our planet and the fate, in particular, of one lonely inter-galactic visitor.Although the setting, characters and language are distinctively Australian, the story has universal appeal.I hope you enjoy reading my novel as much as I did writing it.

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