After the incredible success of The Lost Bible, Igor Bergler’s next novel is, no doubt, the most eagerly awaited book of the year. Lincoln’s Best Kept Secret is a prequel. In it Professor Charles Baker’s adventures shift from Europe to the United States and Latin America. As was the case in The Lost Bible, the plot builds around a real, historic mystery that no one has been able to really solve till now. The two great questions the professor must answer come from two different periods of history. The first is a classic problem: What transformed the greatest American President from a slightly racist provincial lawyer (who initially saw the ending of slavery as a marginal problem that followed from the founders’ principle that a person had the right to the fruit of his labor and who was in no way inclined to offer people of color citizenship or fundamental rights) into an abolitionist ardent to the extent that he made the abolition of slavery the single focus of his life? What, in other words, changed a man who initially saw the ending of slavery as a marginal problem that followed from the founders’ principle that a person had the right to the fruit of his labor and who was in no way inclined to offer people of color citizenship or fundamental rights into the esteemed president who was assassinated for his commitment? The second great mystery, this time historically much closer to us, is: what were the real reasons for Joseph Alois Ratzinger/ Pope Benedict’s retirement? The answers to these questions will unleash an international crisis, and the implications for the conspirators who made them possible will be vastly more horrifying than those in The Lost Bible.
