THE BORGIA FRAUD

The Borgia Fraud is based on fact – the characters, timeline, historical and religious details are correct and the processes described to commit the fraud were documented a thousand years before the action takes place in 1502. Its results persist to this very day in a web of deceit that could ultimately bring down the Christian Church.
   It is the golden age for faking religious relics and, when the Borgia Pope, Alexander VI, and his son Cesare require vast sums of money to wage war on the small states of northern Italy, Niccolo Macchiavelli proposes a solution – fraud on a hitherto unparalleled scale. But to pull it off his strategy, they must ensnare the one man in Europe with the skill and imagination to execute the plan - Leonardo da Vinci. Beneath the surface, however, the players have conflicting agendas, as does the Frenchman Eduard de Charnay, ancestor of the Geoffrey de Charnay, the Templar Preceptor of Normandie, burned to death for heresy, two centuries before and, who, even as the flames took hold, refused to reveal the whereabouts of the Baphomet, the Forbidden Relic.
   No one has bargained with the power of the Forbidden Relic, so desperately sought by both the Roman Church and those prepared to do anything to keep it out of their hands.
   St Augustine wrote, “what is called the Christian religion existed amongst the ancients from the beginning of the human race until Christ came in the flesh, at which time the true religion began to be called Christianity”.
   The book places Jesus in a line of kings who practices, and their underlying consequences for the Christian religion, can make uncomfortable reading.

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