Allen Kent Libri

When a letter to a CIA operative suddenly shows up forty-five years after the contact who sent it disappeared in Southeast Asia, Unit I agent Adam Zak is assigned to investigate a group of Chinese children who the missing informant had discovered in a remote village in Cambodia, receiving an American education. Zak's search to determine who the children were and why they might present a security risk to the United States takes him into the heart of Bangkok's notorious red light district, through the jungle temples of Cambodia's Angkor Wat, and into the volatile secret world of computer network security. Who were the children the villagers called the "Weavers," and why does the economic future of the United States depend on unraveling their web of secrecy?

On the eve of an announcement he claims will send shockwaves through the world's Christian community, a distinguished professor of religious studies is mysteriously found dead. When an ambitious colleague, Nolan Lemay, discovers that the announcement involved disclosure of a first century letter claiming the disciple Thomas to have been the literal twin of Jesus of Nazareth, Lemay attempts to acquire the manuscript and finds his own life in danger. Three young women, trained from their youth to safeguard the secrets of an ancient text held by a small sect of St. Thomas Christians in southern India, track Lemay across Southeast Asia as he first attempts to make public the letter's startling contents, then flees to escape the zealous pursuit if the Guardians of the Second Son.

"So, try to get your brain around this! Suppose, without any warning, you found yourself in another place and time? Zap. Just that fast! And even worse, in someone else's body. Then, a month later, zap. You're back where you were before, as yourself, trying to explain to people what had happened to you. But no one believes you because during that month, people didn't think you'd been gone at all. Just that you'd been acting really weird. Because someone else had been there in your body, someone who claimed she was another person. Everyone would think you were completely nuts. Right? I can promise you they would. Because that's just what happened to me. "Why do Alyssa (Ally) Wallis, a soccer-loving teen from Texarkana, Texas, and Emmeline Caywood, a prim, artistic British immigrant to South Africa's 1820s Cape Colony of Bathurst, suddenly switch places and bodies? Has Emme been cursed by the local Xhosa chieftain for breaking a taboo, as her maid insists? Did a fall launch Ally into a world of hallucination where what seems so real is no more than a creation of a wounded mind? Or does each have a role in rectifying a centuries-old injustice that will change forever both of their lives and the lives of those they love? "Switch" is a page-turning journey into the lives of two young women whose bond over time changes who they are, who they become, and the lives of everyone they love.

Have you ever wondered where the sun goes when it disappears into the sea? This is a forgotten story from a forgotten time…Within the big black, Batra listens to the song of darkness. Soon the haunting melody will take the little fish on an adventure that will change his world forever.