“The Givenchy Code” is a parody of that other ‘code’ novel.
The Holy Grail was not a cup, but it wasn’t Mary Magdalene herself either, who supposedly carried Jesus’ royal blood in her womb and bore Him a child who went on to found France’s Merovingian dynasty. It was something far more extraordinary than that!
Starting with the murder of a prominent French personality in the fragrance industry, “The Givenchy Code” takes us on an exhilarating code-cracking adventure around Paris and beyond and introduces us to Theo Grayhill, a Jesuit priest doing the university lecture circuit on religious characters in Sci-Fi movies; Puca Watson, a budding French cryptographer; Madame Au Swait (pronounced oh-sway), prominent fashion figure, who orchestrated her own death to preserve her myth while continuing to rule the fragrance industry from behind the scenes; and the Frenchman, a sadomasochistic killer-for-hire saddled with Vitiligo, a skin condition resulting from loss of pigment, which produces white patches all over the skin.
While reading the novel The Da Vinci Code, a parallel story started unfolding in the back of my perversely imaginative mind. The result, “The Givenchy Code”, is my humble attempt at paying homage to Mr. Dan Brown’s page-turning novel, poking benign fun at the ostensibly complex fragrance industry and ultimately, conjecturing an out-of-this- world theory of a story that the Holy Grail was indeed not a cup but a…
A humorous look at the world and life through my eyes.
Follow the author and his wife, as they travel the world …. several times over.
Laugh at their funny stories, self-inflicted crazy events, strange observations, wacky zoo facts and snippets
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"Murder isn't usually this funny."
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