What if everything you believed about Christianity were based on a lie, or more precisely: a divine deception? This is the controversial premise of "The Sins of Angels." Ed Lee is an unassuming monosyllable of a man assigned to the Defense Department's Syzygy Project. He is a computer genius of unparalleled talent, working for peanuts "in the basement" when he could be making millions of dollars a month in the private sector. To the government, Ed Lee is a godsend. He may also be the most prolific child-killer in the history of mankind. Were it not for an equally brilliant psychiatrist named Dr. Gerald Harris, Lee's sinister secret might never have been revealed. Dr. Harris is a popular veteran of the FBI's Behavior Analysis Unit, working out of its office in Atlanta. He made a name for himself as a young forensic investigator during the Missing and Murdered case when dozens of children were killed during the 1980's. Understanding the pathology of violent child predators is his forte, and no one in the world has better credentials than he. Certainly, to any rational person, Ed Lee must be insane. But Jerry Harris isn't so sure. He is perplexed and later haunted by Lee's bizarre obsession with angels and his insistence that they are on here on earth with an unholy agenda of mayhem and sin. Lee tells him that angels are the jealous first-born of God and that they will never be sated until they infect all of humanity "with the seminal ingots of vice" that they bring with them like a venereal disease. The doctor is also fascinated by Lee's thesis, predicated on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, that these beings can be both "here and not here" at the same time. Such is the nature of angels, he says, to exist in the "enharmonic intervals" of dimensions. . Borrowing from some of the most sophisticated and controversial theories in particle physics, Ed Lee talks of pyramids as super-conducting machines that, among other things, may be "leaking future." Ed also reveals that he is a member of a sect long thought to be rooted in mythology but is very much alive and well today... the Pythagoreans. He then explains that there is an ongoing and savage war between them and the Masons, whom he despises. Spotting one during his interrogation he sneers provocatively, "A daemonibus docetur, de daemonibus docet, et ad daemons ducit." "It is taught by the demons, it teaches about the demons, and it leads to the demons." The words are an archaic warning associated with Masonic ritual. Ed Lee is eventually executed, (despite the ghoulish efforts of the "alphabet spook" agencies to revive him.) It is then that Dr. Harris' real journey through the mysteries begins. Secrets are revealed, demons are confronted, and the very foundation of Christianity is turned upside down in a fast-paced story that travels through space and time.
About the Author: Keith Whitney is an award winning television journalist with a sharp eye for imagery and detail, both of which dominate his controversial first novel, The Sins of Angels. Relying on an inventive premise that challenges the foundational tenets of his own Christian faith, he dares to ask "What if everything you believed is wrong?" The Sins of Angels seeks to answer that question with a mix of science and spirituality, two seemingly opposite pursuits that nonetheless dwell together in the same space... called faith. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Keith has spent most of his adult life covering major stories in the Southeast. He currently lives in Atlanta with his family.