The Nostradamus Prophecies - Mario Reading

Details:
TITLE: THE NOSTRADAMUS PROPHECIES
AUTHOR: MARIO READING
GENRE: FANTASY-ADVENTURE
PUBLISHER: ATLANTIC BOOKS (August 2009)
ISBN: 9781848871243
PAGES: 428

Synopsis:
Nostradamus, the most famous prophet in the past, wrote 1000 prophecies (quatrains). Of these 1000, only 942 survived. What happened to the other 58? What prophecies could be so terrible that they had to be hidden from the society? No one really knows.

Nostradamus, besides accurately predicting the happening of the 2 World Wars, The 9/11 incident, Katrina Hurricane and much more, also predicted the Second Coming (of Jesus) and the Third Antichrist (who is like the biggest villain who could cause unrest in the world, the first is Napoleon, and the second is Adolf Hilter). The identity of the Third Antichrist remains unknown.

Until Sabir, a journalist whose career is on the edge, tries to revive his career by writing an article on it.

He approached a Gypsy, who sold him some clues. These clues, however, happened to be the keys to retrieving back the missing 58 quatrains. Although the book revolves around the missing 58 quadrants from his 10 centuries, it was more like a hide-and-seek game. Almost half of the book describes how Bale, the antagonist, was chasing/stalking/watching over Sabir, Yola and Alexi (both Gypsies) the trio. Sabir and his gypsies were, on the other hand, trying to avoid both Bale and Captain Claque while trying to recover the prophecies.

Based on the ending, I think Mario would write another sequel, which would revolves around Sabir's new shaman ability, and probably Yola's son. It might also involves the Second Coming and the Third Antichrist as well. Corpus Malefius/The Countess might play a bigger role in the sequel.

★★☆☆☆
-KarWai