Böcker av Julian Doyle

The composer Richard Wagner and the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche were good friends but on the day of Wagner's greatest triumph, the opening of his Opera House at Bayreuth, Nietzsche walked away from the friendship and later threatened to kill Wagner. Soon after these bizarre events Wagner died and Nietzsche went raving mad, spending the last ten years of his life in a permanent state of catatonia. The extraordinary details of the quarrel between these two giants of 19th Century culture is dramatically revealed when the haunting Ghost of Richard Wagner materialises to the raving Nietzsche within the walls of the Turin Lunatic Asylum.

Throughout the history of Christianity there have been those claiming a monumental secret. Often centered around the Church of St. Sulpice in Paris and associated with French esoteric circles like Debussy who wrote in a review: "Perhaps it's to destroy that scandalous legend that Jesus Christ died on the cross." But even Canon Alfred Lilley came back from St. Sulpice questioning the crucifixion. There must have been some documentation in the church that convinced these people of something portentous. Here for example is a letter sent by Louis Fouquet to his brother after a meeting in Rome with the mysterious painter Poussin. 'According to him (Poussin), it is possible that nobody else will ever rediscover in the centuries to come.' But now searching links between the history of Rome and the latest Biblical research, we finally reveal the extraordinary and truly monumental secret that Fouquet thought 'nobody would ever rediscover in the centuries to come. The publication of 'Who killed Jesus' will no doubt make the re-evaluation of Christianity, as we knew it, inevitable.