Paradox: The 42nd Extraction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798273909991)

PARADOX - THE 42nd EXTRACTION
A novel by Marc Nogam

Before time was measured, a covenant was sealed - and humanity has been paying its price ever since. From the deserts of Paran to the far colonies of Mars, Paradox - The 42nd Extraction unfolds an epic that fuses theology, history, and speculative science into one seamless continuum. Six centuries after Ezekiel's vision of the "Chariot of God," the Anunnaki return to reclaim what they call their divine inheritance. Their mission is not conquest, but extraction: to harvest the genetic spark they once implanted within humankind. The prophet's revelation becomes a recurring echo through millennia - whispered in temples, hidden in archives, and encrypted within human blood itself.
Through forty-seven chapters, the narrative moves from biblical deserts to medieval monasteries, from the fall of Jerusalem to the laboratories of a fractured future. Across each era, the same lineage reappears - men and women torn between faith and knowledge, love and destiny. Joachim, a rejected scholar of Israel's archives, uncovers the forbidden record of celestial visitors. His bloodline endures through exiles, crusades, inquisitions, and empires, carrying fragments of the original code. In 1939, physicist Daniel Mourão discovers those same encrypted patterns buried in DNA. His research draws the attention of hidden powers - both human and non-human - as he joins Father William and Jade, a woman whose ancestry may complete the final sequence of the 42nd extraction.
Their search crosses secret Vatican vaults, Nazi experiments, and Martian colonies built over ancient ruins. Guided by the rebel Arael - last of the Watchers - they uncover the true purpose behind human evolution: consciousness itself was engineered as a bridge between matter and eternity. But the creators have returned to reclaim it. In the climactic Great Council on Mars, Daniel and his companions face Enki and Enlil, rulers of the Anunnaki dynasty. The verdict is extinction; the rebellion, transcendence. Father William opens his Bible to reveal the hidden Cube - an ancient artifact capable of rewriting time. What follows is both revelation and implosion: a wormhole tearing through the tribunal, collapsing the architecture of destiny.
As galaxies fold upon themselves, only one message remains across the ages: Stay alert - they are returning.