Based on Sumerian mythology, The Unveiling 1.0 is a clever blend of fact and fiction that many have compared to the oeuvres of Dan Brown. When the story opens, billionaire heir, Max Battenberg, is blessed with a carefree and idyllic life. Everything is turned upside down, however, just months shy of his 25th birthday in the family's traditional rite of passage, the mysterious Battenberg initiation. During the bizarre ceremony, his family's darkest secret is revealed. The Battenbergs are descended from an ancient bloodline spoken of in one of the world's oldest mythologies. Since the dawn of civilization, his family, and others like them, have remained hidden in the world's ruling classes from the Pharaohs of Egypt to the royals of Europe. In modern times, the clan of blue bloods, an estimated one percent of the population, continues its tyrannical reign, hidden behind the veils of politics, law and banking. As their newest initiate, however, Max must soon decide. Will he carry on his legacy's treacherous agenda of world domination? Or might he embrace the prophecy of a peculiar psychic to become one of the greatest liberators of all time?
Skull and Bones, the Bilderberg Group and the Council on Foreign Relations: most people know these organizations exist in the shadows. There are also rumors of groups alleged to be pure myth whose intentions, insiders whisper, are dreadfully frightening in nature: Illuminati, the Committee of 300 and the Babylonian Brotherhood. But there is another secret society so unusually powerful that very few even know its name. It is the one that governs them all… the Rizick Group.
Max Battenberg, one of the world’s wealthiest heirs, has just learned his family bloodline links to the mysterious Rizick Group, an ancient sect with extraterrestrial ties. As their newest initiate, he must take his rightful seat on Rizick’s ruling council. To his horror, however, Max discovers they intend to unleash Clean Slate, a catastrophic depopulation initiative designed to reduce the human race by an incredible 90 percent. As he penetrates deeper into Rizick’s inner workings, other players rush in, including an unlikely homeless man, an eccentric medium and the otherworldly “blonde” who has seemingly haunted his dreams. In a desperate move to save humanity, Max must reject his family heritage and team with a ragtag band of resistance rebels. But will his efforts succeed?
K. L. Collins is an Ivy-League-educated author whose writing career began in series television. Born in the United States, Collins has also lived in Africa and Europe and is fluent in French. Authors who have been an inspiration include Stephen King, Whitley Strieber, William Peter Blatty and Robert Ludlum. Today, Collins focuses on writing novels and teaching college-level screenwriting for both television and film.
Before Egypt and long before the Bible there was the Empire of Sumer, Earth's oldest documented civilization. Their mythology proposes that we were once visited by a technologically advanced race from beyond Earth that would forever change the course of humanity. Sumer, more recently called Mesopotamia, is largely known today as Iraq. Through its borders run the legendary rivers the Tigris and Euphrates, spoken of in the Old Testament. Uncanny similarities between the story of the Bible and Sumerian mythology don't just end there. Many conspiracy theorists propose that, based on its history, Iraq has for centuries housed a wealth of ancient secrets that have nothing to do with oil or traditional weapons of mass destruction. Could this have been the true reason for the U.S. invasion of Iraq: the search for alien technology? The Unveiling 1.0 combines myth, fact and fiction in a clever retelling of one of the world's oldest known accounts of how modern man was born. What if the truth behind man's origins was hidden in plain sight all along?