Bestselling author Graham Hancock visits Toppings in Bath on June 26 to celebrate the launch of his new epic historical novel War God: Nights of the Witch.
Wild card nonfiction author Graham Hancock – infamous for his many controversial bestselling nonfiction books, including Fingerprints of the Gods expounding his claim that an advanced civilisation existed during the last Ice Age and was destroyed in a global cataclysm some 13,000 years ago – has successfully turned his hand to fiction.
War God: Nights of the Witch is a spellbinding supernatural adventure story revisiting one of the most momentous occurrences in human history, the Spanish conquest of Mexico.
It tells the story of colliding empires, where two gods of war and their avatars, Cortes and Moctezuma, fight to the death for supremacy.
The book's launch coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Papal Requirement in June 1513, which legitimised Spain's war of conquest as an act of God, instigating centuries of God-inspired colonialism, which would radically reshape the world.
Graham said: "It is interesting to wonder what the world we live in today would have been like if the Spanish conquest of Mexico had never taken place, or been guided to unfold in a different way.
"For the pattern of genocide that Cortes set in that benighted land – and all in the name of God – was followed slavishly little more than a decade later by Pizarro in Peru and ultimately became the model for the dealings of all the European powers with all the indigenous peoples they were to encounter the world over in the centuries of darkness that followed."
During talks on the tour, as well as introducing War God, Hancock will share exclusive advance information on some of the compelling new evidence he has gathered in support of the controversial thesis that first brought him worldwide fame — the thesis of a lost civilisation, technologically advanced but spiritually corrupt, destroyed in a global cataclysm at the end of the last Ice Age. With work well-advanced on a sequel to Fingerprints of the Gods to be published in 2015, and his exciting new historical novel just published, this will be a fascinating opportunity to meet such a unique thinker.
Doors open at 7.45pm for 8pm start.
Visit www.grahamhancock.com for further information.
