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Michael Cordy


MICHAEL CORDY worked for ten years in marketing before giving it all up to write The Messiah Code, which has since sold in over twentyfive countries. He is also the author of The Lucifer Code and The Venus Conspiracy. Michael Cordy lives in London with his wife, Jenny.

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The Colour of Death
Written by Michael Cordy

Paperback | 364 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-552-15699-8 (0-552-15699-X)

May 21, 2012 | $11.99



The stunning new high-concept thriller from a master of the genre.
 
In a residential neighbourhood of Portland, Oregon, an unknown young woman uncovers a shocking crime scene by inexplicably sensing the evil within its walls. To the police, she herself is a mystery.She appears on no government records, has no past and...


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The Source
Written by Michael Cordy

Paperback | 364 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-552-15698-1 (0-552-15698-1)

September 21, 2009 | $11.99



It’s not a myth. It exists. Find it.

Geologist Ross Kelly has it all: a lucrative career searching for oil across the world and a beautiful, brilliant wife, Lauren, pregnant with their fist child. But when Lauren, a Yale academic, deciphers the university’s mysterious Voynich manuscript, which has confounded experts for...

Also available as a trade paperback.

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The Source
Written by Michael Cordy

Trade Paperback | 364 pages | Bantam Press | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-593-06066-7 (0-593-06066-0)

September 2, 2008 | $24.95



It’s not a myth. It exists. Find it.

Geologist Ross Kelly has it all: a lucrative career searching for oil across the world and a beautiful, brilliant wife, Lauren, pregnant with their fist child. But when Lauren, a Yale academic, deciphers the university’s mysterious Voynich manuscript, which has confounded experts for...

Also available as a paperback.

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The Crime Code
Written by Michael Cordy

Paperback | 480 pages | Corgi | Fiction; Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-552-15541-0 (0-552-15541-1)

May 15, 2007 | $11.99



Violent crime has become a global epidemic, nowhere more so than in the United States. Everything from the death penalty to liberal reforms has failed. Nothing has been effective…until now.

Project Conscience promises to the solution. It is a bold attempt by a powerful group of scientists, politicians and senior law-enforcement personnel...


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The Venus Conspiracy
Written by Michael Cordy

Paperback | 489 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-552-14883-2 (0-552-14883-0)

October 12, 2006 | $11.99



When Professor Bacci inadvertently unlocks the biochemical key to falling in love and develops a drug capable of creating emotions indistinguishable from the real thing, he is determined that the world benefits from his discovery.

A private Swiss bank steps in, owned by the secretive Kappel family, and offers to fund Bacci’s...


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The Lucifer Code
Written by Michael Cordy

Paperback | 448 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-552-15447-5 (0-552-15447-4)

March 3, 2006 | $11.99



Lucifer The Light Age has dawned. Light divides the universe into two: day and night. Good and evil. Life and death. Now its power, harnessed by a new generation of optical computers, attempts to answer mankind’s last great question: What happens to us when we die? But this is perilous knowledge...


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The Messiah Code
Written by Michael Cordy

Paperback | 544 pages | Corgi | Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-552-15405-5 (0-552-15405-9)

October 31, 2005 | $11.99



At the moment of his supreme triumph, a man of science dodges an assassin's bullet and loses everything that truly matters in his life. Now only a miracle can save Dr. Tom Carter's dying daughter: the blood of salvation shed twenty centuries ago.

In the volatile heart of the Middle East, amid...


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Crime Zero
Written by Michael Cordy

Paperback | pages | Corgi | Fiction - Thrillers
978-0-552-14604-3 (0-552-14604-8)

August 8, 2000 | $10.99