Description: Paris Monday, May 24, 1999, 8:32 pm: Father Bertrand Beaulieu, member of the venerable "Society of Casuists, " holds in his trembling hands six handwritten pages that prove the existence of God. The shock of this news reverberates from the hushed offices of the church straight across town to the paneled conference rooms of the presidential palace, and instantly these hallowed institutions move separately to suppress the news, each certain it will mean nothing less than the very end of Church and State. For if surely there is a God, who needs intermediaries or earthly success? With this wry, audacious novel, Laurence Cosse playfully yet profoundly questions what might happen if the most powerful institutions on Earth discover the most extraordinary revelation of the millennium.

L'Express in France called this "an ironic, jubilant thriller...a breathtaking trip through the corridors of secular and spiritual power." In his Introduction to this American edition, Jack Miles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of God: A Biography, says "I was entranced... Cosse makes the language glow -- as she makes the whole of this irresistible little book glow."

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