Gideon's Bible

In 798 AD, a Viking expedition is wrecked in a storm off the Orkney coast. The sole survivor is Long Yngvarr, the mission leader who is washed ashore with his prize; a strange blue rock possessed of a mysterious power and bursting with possibly unlimited energy.

Twelve hundred years later, John Gideon is about to be wrecked in a financial storm of his own making. He’s Britain’s most celebrated sceptic; a professional de-bunker with the inside-track on all the clairvoyants, faith healers, spoon benders, urban monsters, poltergeist manifestations, psychic surgeons, kooks, spooks, and fairy sightings.

The British tax authorities are onto him, or he faces jail. He’s now pinning his hopes on his new book on paranormal activity, Gideon’s Bible, and possibly a TV show too.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Robert Dunn is in an election year; a bad year that sees him facing a hostile press, a disgruntled electorate, a betrayed wife—and quite possibly a bunch of vengeful Israeli agents (or some other unknown political group), intent on embarrassing him by flying some kind of UFO very close to his Norfolk country home. Dunn, after all, is a well known amateur astronomer; a stargazer with a 6-inch refractor and a reputation for telling it like it is.

The Prime Minister has the grainy photographic evidence, but feels that this simply has to be some kind of political ploy or vendetta, and so dispatches Connie Wilson, one of his most trusted—and most personal—investigators. Whatever the hell is going on out there, Connie will get to the bottom of it.

But just to help her along, Prime Minister Dunn has anonymously sent copies of the photographs to John Gideon; a man who can also be trusted to act responsibly and rationally, even when the facts appear to point the other way.

The big question is whether or not this is a genuine alien UFO among the thousands of fakes and misinterpretations that Gideon has catalogued, or whether something more down to earth is going on.

Fast forward to the small Norfolk community closest to the sightings where increasingly strange things are happening around the old US airbase of Langby. Mysterious security men are driving around in black four by fours. Trucks are seen carrying liquefied gases. A unidentified charred body is washed up on a nearby beach. And a cow is heard speaking French.

Then two young girls go missing. And then the local lynch mob get mobilised. All hell is suddenly breaking loose, but John Gideon (and his trusty assistant, Emma) are soon on the case and discover the game-changing secret of the mysterious blue Viking rock.

Gideon’s Bible is a fast moving, high-tech, high-octane, high-jinks action-packed adventure where nothing is quite what it appears, and people are not at all who—or what—they seem.