Press Release: Stephens’ new novel, “Alpha, Omega”

SEATTLE, Washington—Fresh from the keyboard of science-thriller writer Lori Stephens, Alpha, Omega is—like Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code—fiction with a forceful message. The story starts with a corpse. A defector from a cult called Omega has bled to death, and the only clue is the book he’s clutching: the Librah Vae-ta, the holy scripture that the Omega founders engineered over a century ago. Dr. Gatsby Donovan resolves to help solve the bizarre murder. As she spirals deeper into the danger zone of spies and assassins, she discovers that the Omega script is based on the ancient languages of the Bible, Torah, and Koran.
Alpha, Omega’s back cover cautions, “WARNING! Read at your own risk!” Could the mere act of reading this novel be dangerous? Readers may wonder if the holy book in their own home libraries contains much more than maxims for living.
Alpha Omega an intelligent (and wild) ride through cults, religious scriptures, ancient languages, neuro-addiction, murder, betrayal, revenge, and ultimately, love. As it challenges readers to rethink the agendas of the religious organizations that have become global superpowers, it poses startling questions that deconstruct the very nature of belief.
While The Da Vinci Code asks the question, “Is our eschatological symbol for goodness who we think he is?” Alpha Omega asks “Come on now, what does it really mean to be human?”
—D. Rowland, PhD, Scholar of Religion
Alpha, Omega will keep you on the edge of your seat.
—K. McElroy
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ISBN10: 1-4196-8925-8
ISBN13: 978-1-4196-8925-3
Several of us know Lori as a local writer and the organizer of the Kirkland Atheist group Heathens Do It Better. Many of our book group participants have expressed interest in reading a fiction novel for a change of pace, and I think this would be a great book to consider.
Comment by Jami — September 21, 2008 @ 9:02 am