Yes - I'm sure that there is life after death
Some of the characters in The Domini Conspiracy inhabit the spirit world. Readers have asked me whether I have based my description of what happens when we die on guesswork or experience! The answer, I suppose, is a bit of both. I became convinced about the continuity of consciousness through an extraordinary personal experience in 1978. I'm as sure about the reality of life after death as I am about anything (this may seem odd coming from an engineer) - but the detailed description, in the story, of what it's like on the other side is an extrapolation of my understanding. It may be true - I'll find out some day!

The Celestine Prophecy

Another book with which The Domini Conspiracy is likened is The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield. The front cover reads - 'In the rain forests of Peru, an ancient manuscript has been discovered. Within its pages are nine insights into life itself - insights each human being is predicted to grasp sequentially, one insight then another, as we move towards a completely spiritual culture of earth.'
Within its thriller narrative The Domini Conspiracy also contains insights - about life and its purpose. Some readers may find that they challenge their world view - most will find them ultimately hopeful.

The Da Vinci Code

Some readers have told me that The Domini Conspiracy is the best book they have read since The Da Vinci Code - flattery indeed! I haven't read the Da Vinci Code but I suppose the genre is similar. If anyone else has any views on this please let me know...

The Domini Conspiracy

A secret order has controlled world politics and religion for centuries. Its purpose is to maintain power and wealth amongst its elite membership. It has supported social and religious structures that suppress equality and free-thinking and will eliminate anyone or anything that gets in its way. The result is that mankind has become stunted intellectually and spiritually, unable to reach its full potential. A band of people have come together to break this hold on humanity by revealing truths about life and the hereafter that will liberate us all. But the forces against them are powerful and ruthless and the mission of this small group seems doomed. An ordinary man gets a letter with a message from his deceased wife. The letter is anonymous – the only clue is the Inverness postmark. His attempt to find the author of the letter draws him into an adventure of violence, mystery and love. The future of the world is at stake.

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Introducing Willie Souter...

Chapter 19, page 71

In her haste to see Donnie Ross, Eleanor had not noticed that one customer remained. Willie Souter was in the gents’ toilet as Eleanor locked up the bar. When Willie came out of the gents he found he had the bar to himself.
When the bar was locked and isolated from the rest of the building, residents would use a separate entrance at the side of the inn to gain access to their rooms. This arrangement was designed to protect the bar stock when no staff were present. It was not designed to lock the likes of Willie Souter in. For a few brief minutes Willie tried, rather half-heartedly, to find a way out. Then he resigned himself to being locked in and helped himself to a large Balblair, his favourite whisky.

Introducing John McGribben...

Chapter 26, page94

John McGribben was a senior elder of the kirk and influential in the local community. Children were told by their parents to show him respect. Respected or not, he was hardly liked. He was a tall, gaunt man with long, lined facial features. His eyes were pale and strangely emotionless and the veins on the end of his bulbous nose were inflamed from years of managing without too much heating in his damp house. Mrs McGribben had passed away many years previously and with no children McGribben now lived on his own. Whether this solitude had turned him sour it was hard to say. The sad fact was that McGribben was not an attractive personality.

Chapter 14, page 60

John McGribben’s version of Christianity inhabited the darker recesses of fundamentalism. Not for him the world and life-affirming theology of David MacLeod. To McGribben the world was a fallen place where Satan and his demons went abroad tempting souls to partake of pleasures that would surely see them damned for all eternity. Sex, in particular, was almost always sinful – only permitted, and only just, within the context of a legitimate marriage.
McGribben believed he was one of the elect, those pre-destined to eternal salvation, and he felt duty bound to teach righteous living to those less fortunate than himself. He took this duty very seriously, especially with his Sunday School pupils, and when it came to the evils of fornication and sexual pleasure, McGribben was prone to using practical demonstrations, in private, for those of his young pupils he thought most likely to stray.

The Domini Conspiracy

A secret order has controlled world politics and religion for centuries. Its purpose is to maintain power and wealth amongst its elite membership. It has supported social and religious structures that suppress equality and free-thinking and will eliminate anyone or anything that gets in its way. The result is that mankind has become stunted intellectually and spiritually, unable to reach its full potential. A band of people have come together to break this hold on humanity by revealing truths about life and the hereafter that will liberate us all. But the forces against them are powerful and ruthless and the mission of this small group seems doomed. An ordinary man gets a letter with a message from his deceased wife. The letter is anonymous – the only clue is the Inverness postmark. His attempt to find the author of the letter draws him into an adventure of violence, mystery and love. The future of the world is at stake.