Danielle Trussoni's Novel, Angelology

I highly recommend Danielle Trussoni’s novel, Angelology. Trussoni’s writing is gripping, able to capture the reader early on in the plot that was very well researched. She combines the depth of historic adventure and religious spirituality into a well-balanced thriller.

This New York Times Best-Seller is Trussoni’s first published novel. It follows in the shadow of her highly acclaimed non-fiction work, Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir, which was inspired by her father’s experiences as a tunnel rat during the Vietnam War and was elected by New York Times as one of the Ten Best Books of 2006. To add to Trussoni’s continued success, Columbia Pictures has purchased the rights to begin working on the movie adaption of Angelology.

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. -Genesis 6:5

Sister Evangeline was just a girl when her father entrusted her to the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in upstate New York. Now, at twenty-three, her discovery of a 1943 letter from the famous philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller to the late mother superior of Saint Rose Convent plunges Evangeline into a secret history that stretches back a thousand years: an ancient conflict between the Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful descendants of angels and humans, the Nephilim.

For the secrets these letters guard are desperately coveted by the once-powerful Nephilim, who aim to perpetuate war, subvert the good in humanity, and dominate mankind. Generations of angelologists have devoted their lives to stopping them, and their shared mission, which Evangeline has long been destined to join, reaches from her bucolic abbey on the Hudson to the apex of insular wealth in New York, to the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris and the mountains of Bulgaria.