Historical Fiction Turns Supernatural in The Diary of an Immortal (1945-1959)
Debi Moore
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If you’re the type who enjoys reading historical fiction with a tinge of the supernatural – or have someone on your holiday shopping list who is – we bring to your attention The Diary of an Immortal (1945-1959) by David Castello.
When explaining his “mind-bending” (Ron Jackson, DN Journal) new novel, Castello stated, “The genre is magical realism such as Stephen King’s The Green Mile or F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. If a reader is a fan of that style, there is a good chance they will enjoy my book.”
The Diary of an Immortal follows the life of Steven Ronson from 1945 to 1959. A U.S. Army medic, he stumbles across an immortality formula designed for Adolph Hitler during the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. From Germany to New York to the top of Tibet, Ronson follows his heart as he fights to keep the immorality formula from destroying the world.
Castello carefully researched and documented much of what is in the book, and what he found will shock, confuse, and possibly bewilder you. The story is fiction, but much of the research is fact-based.
Sound intriguing? The Diary of an Immortal is available from Amazon and all the usual outlets courtesy of BookBaby.
Synopsis:
Twenty-one-year-old U.S. Army combat medic Steven Ronson escapes the constant inundation and threat of death in World War II after he discovers an immortality formula designed for Adolf Hitler during the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in April of 1945. Steven begins consuming the immortality formula and, after realizing that aging and death no longer control his life, travels to Manhattan to realize his childhood dream of becoming a jazz saxophonist on 52nd Street.
The immortality formula gives him supernatural powers and fantastic musical abilities. His performance catches the attention of a disgraced British missionary and his adopted niece who knew the Buddhist monks in China that have guarded the original formula for thousands of years. After a series of disturbing and prophetic visions, Steven accepts an invitation from the ex-missionary to journey to Xian.
In a mountain monastery outside of the city, Steven discovers the incredible truth about the formula and the monks and the interstellar origins of Jesus Christ and the human race. But time is running out–the German occultists who helped bring Hitler to power in the 1930s have selected another Aryan messiah, and this time he has the formula. Steven cannot allow the nightmare he experienced in Germany to happen again.
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