Blank Slate Press, an imprint of Amphorae Publishing, announces the release of Vincent Czyz’s newest work, The Christos Mosaic, an intellectual and theological thriller about three unlikely friends trying to bring to light a scroll that could rend the very fabric of the Christian faith. This provocative book has already gained positive attention from James Goodman, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of But Where is the Lamb? who wrote in his review “The Christos Mosaic is part Orhan Pamuk, part Elaine Pagels, and part Dan Brown. But it is mostly Vincent Czyz, an irrepressible fiction writer who has the good sense to realize that scholarship is the friend of great stories—and the talent to put that friendship to good use. I must confess that I turned to the novel for fun, and it is fun from first page to last. What surprised me was how very much I learned about the past. A wonderful novel.”

Mosaic starts with a suspicious death in Istanbul that leaves one ancient scroll, and clues to finding another, in the hands of Drew Korchula, a 32-year-old American expat, and a Turkish dwarf named Kadir. Drew is desperate to turn everything over to the academic community, and in the process redeem himself in the eyes of his estranged wife, but Kadir is only interested in what they can get for their scroll on the black market. Not everyone wants to see the scrolls go public, however, and some will stop at nothing to protect the Catholic Church from the revelations embodied in the priceless manuscripts. An intellectual and theological thriller unraveling a cold case more than 2,000 years old, The Christos Mosaic takes the reader through the backstreets of Istanbul and Cairo to clandestine negotiations with antiquities smugglers and soldiers of fortune, on a nautical skirmish off the coast of Alexandria, and finally to the ruins of Constantine’s palace buried beneath the streets of present-day Istanbul.

Czyz will be promoting Mosaic at the Barnes & Noble in Ewing, NJ on November 11. Amphorae Publishing will also be sponsoring events in Saint Louis, MO to celebrate the launch of this publication. More information about Vincent can be found on his website at http://www.vincent-czyz.com, Twitter at https://twitter.com/VinceCzyz, or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/VincentCzyzAuthor.