The Matriarch - The Language Stone

by Philip Newman

Meira McMahon is being pursued by governments, churches, and ruthless oil producers as she uncovers the technology of a people who enjoyed lives of peace and longevity beyond our dreams. The galloping pace of this rip roaring novel would leave you gasping in its wake were it not so compelling as to prevent you from loosing your grip upon it. At the end of it all, when you have followed our heroine down the Nile, through war-torn Iraq, into the Hindu Kush, and down a thousand miles of the muddy Mekong while dark forces from London to Beijing plot and scheme to silence her, you are left with questions: Why would anything so simple as a concaved mirror be considered a dangerous weapon in some societies? Why, when you can cut stone easily, and extremely accurately with concentrated sunlight, was it never offered up as an explanation as to how the pyramids were constructed? Why do western nations waste thousand of lives and squander hundreds of billions of dollars on a war for oil when for less than half that money, and no risk to human life, they could make solar furnaces that would furnish their energy needs for time immemorial?

380 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2005

About the author

*There is more than one author named Philip Newman; the biographical details provided herein refer to Major Philip Harker Newman, CBE, DSO, MC, FRCS of the Royal Army Medical Corps who, in 1983, wrote 'Safer Than a Known Way: An Escape Story of World War II' which was reprinted in 2013 under the title 'Over the Wire': A POW's Escape Story from the Second World War.'