A Mirror Above the Abyss

Oleg Lurye
Works of: Fiction

My novel, A Mirror Above the Abyss, is based both on real, tragic events and on certain assumptions linking such events as assassination of President Kennedy, 9/11 attacks, assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II, money laundering of billions of dollars stolen from the IMF, and much more.

An American journalist, Max Malin, got lucky: he came into possession of a unique archive which belonged to an independent 9/11 investigator who was killed under strange circumstances. Malin becomes the target of a manhunt because both secret services of the United States and some other countries, and the largest international crime syndicate are interested in maintaining only the official version of events. The protagonist of my novel, however, was able to discover, after a most dangerous investigation conducted both in the USA and in Europe, that official versions of the abovementioned and some other events of global importance in the last 60 years do not reflect the reality. This is his conclusion after getting to know amazing facts and surprising links and relations which I have described in my novel.

The novel is set in our time, but some parallel action happens in 1963, 1981, 1999, and in 2001, in the days of much-publicized crimes of the century, from Kennedy’s assassination to the skyscraper destruction on 9/11. Some characters in the novel are fictional, others appear under somewhat changed names, while still others are real and recognizable persons – from well-known politicians, billionaires, top business tycoons, ministers of the Vatican to leaders of national and global crime syndicates.

As you read my novel, you will meet the most global of all living criminals. You will be able to check out his inner world, find out about his passions and pursuits. Plus you will learn about Kennedy’s assassination and 9/11 terror attacks (and more than that) directly from the source, from the man who conceived and managed the worst crimes of our time.

The title of the novel, A Mirror Above the Abyss, is an almost direct quote of the words spoken by the villain, the anti-hero of my book, the man who was behind the worst crimes of the last 60 years:...This world has become an abyss – an abyss of sin, corruption, perfidy, lies, money mongering, and power games. I am simply a mirror above that abyss. Nothing more!