title: THE KARMA KILLERS: A Novel
author: ANGELO PARATICO
description: Angelo Paratico, a native of Italy, has lived in Hong Kong the past 26 years. He is a columnist for the daily newspaper Secolo d'Italia, which is published in Rome and details his adventures in the Pacific region. The Karma Killers was first published in Italian. The Lo Down with Alex Lo Thriller from HK's own Angelo Paratico is The Da Vinci Code with a karma twist Move over, Dan Brown. My favourite writer of thrillers - Hong Kong's very own Angelo Paratico - has a new book out. Actually, The Karma Killers is an old novel, newly translated into English from the original Italian. The plot is, as usual, convoluted and erudite, about an Italian spy who goes to Tibet () to explore the missing 18 years of Jesus' from the Gospels while trying prevent a coup d'tat and a nuclear war involving Beijing and Kim Jong-il - or something like that. "It is a mystic thriller," Angelo said of his 2004 novel. "Jesus disappears from the four Gospels when he is still a boy of 12, preaching to the doctors at the Temple. Then on the next page he is a grown man of 30 years. What happened to him for 18 years? Nobody knows, and from there many theories have sprung: for some he spent his time with the Essenes [a Jewish sect] in the desert, who had contacts with East. It is well known that the points of contact between the first Christians and Buddhists are many. Or did he travel to India or even further up to Tibet?" Paratico believes there is something to that theory. "The Tibetan variant of his trips had a stronger revival when Nicolas Notovitch, an obscure Russian explorer, in the years 1877-78 went to Hemis Gompa, near Leh, in Ladakh, also known as 'Little Tibet', and now part of Indian Kashmir. He broke a leg falling from his horse and, while staying at that Tibetan monastery, [he said] the abbot one day spoke to him about certain rolls containing the record of a trip of Jesus to India and Tibet. Notovitch asked to see them, and the abbot did agree to let him take note
zlib_text: KARMA
  A ROGUE ENFORCERS NOVELLA
  
  DAWN SULLIVAN
  
  KARMA
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