Goodreads asked Ed Mitchell:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Ed Mitchell I was watching a TV documentary about archeologists testing the Shroud of Turin that is claimed to have been wrapped around Jesus in his burial cave. And how scientific testing proved it was too young (by several centuries) to be authentic.

Then the idea came to me. "What if someone did find a relic that passed all scientific testing as authentic to the year Christ was born?" Then another questions popped into my mind. "What type of relic would have any impact on the world today?" That was the beginning of The Destiny Relic. Three years later I uploaded the contemporary thriller into GoodReads.

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