Synopses & Reviews
"Judge not, lest ye be judged."
These words have rarely, if ever, crossed the mind of Aberlene County judge Evan Spencer. From a middle-class background, he graduated law school, married into wealth, and now has his eye on a Supreme Court seat. All seems to be going well for Judge Spencer until he receives a package from an old college friend he hasn't heard from in years containing a cryptic note and a small stone. But in trying to track down his old friend, Spencer learns of the man's suicidal leap from a twenty-story building.
Evan Spencer now has control of an object whose power is beyond anything he could possibly imagine---an object whose very existence has been kept under wraps by the Vatican for decades. Throughout history, this stone has stricken its holders with visions of their sinful lives, and as if the mental anguish isn't enough, it also inflicts them with stigmatic wounds.
Enlisting the help of Reverend Angelo Grasso, a seventy-two-year-old expert on the history of stigmatic cases, Spencer must uncover the secrets behind this strange stone, or watch his family, career, and possibly his life be destroyed.
Review
"Pete Earley is a major talent."--Stephen Coonts,
New York Times bestselling author of
The Traitor on
The Apocalypse Stone
"John Grisham meets Stephen King in this compelling thriller. A terrific eye for action and character, Earley sure knows how to tell a story. Gripping and intelligent."---Douglas Preston, New York Times bestselling author of Tyrannosaur Canyon on The Big Secret
Review
"Pete Earley is a major talent."--Stephen Coonts,
New York Times bestselling author of
The Traitor on
The Apocalypse Stone
"John Grisham meets Stephen King in this compelling thriller. A terrific eye for action and character, Earley sure knows how to tell a story. Gripping and intelligent."---Douglas Preston, New York Times bestselling author of Tyrannosaur Canyon on The Big Secret
Synopsis
"Judge not, lest ye be judged."
These words have rarely, if ever, crossed the mind of Aberlene County judge Evan Spencer. From a middle-class background, he graduated law school, married into wealth, and now has his eye on a Supreme Court seat. All seems to be going well for Judge Spencer until he receives a package from an old college friend he hasn't heard from in years containing a cryptic note and a small stone. But in trying to track down his old friend, Spencer learns of the man's suicidal leap from a twenty-story building.
Evan Spencer now has control of an object whose power is beyond anything he could possibly imagine---an object whose very existence has been kept under wraps by the Vatican for decades. Throughout history, this stone has stricken its holders with visions of their sinful lives, and as if the mental anguish isn't enough, it also inflicts them with stigmatic wounds.
Enlisting the help of Reverend Angelo Grasso, a seventy-two-year-old expert on the history of stigmatic cases, Spencer must uncover the secrets behind this strange stone, or watch his family, career, and possibly his life be destroyed.
About the Author
Pete Earley is a former
Washington Post reporter and winner of the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar for Best Fact Crime Book in 1996 for
Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town. This book, which also won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, helped free an innocent man from Alabama's death row. Earley's account of the John Walker spy ring,
Family of Spies, was a
New York Times bestseller and CBS mini-series.
The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison was a national bestseller and was based on a year that Earley spent inside a maximum security federal prison as an author.
Born in Arizona, Earley was reared in Colorado and worked for newspapers in Kansas and Oklahoma before moving to the Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C., where he lives with his wife, Patti. They have seven children.