The Invention of Blood — The Man Who Invented Kings

A Novel

Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, 25 June 1956. A clerk stamps the founding of an association: four men, a housing grievance, a name — the Priory of Sion. Out of that receipt grows Europe's most famous conspiracy tale: the supposed bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, carried on in the Merovingian kings, guarded by an ancient secret order. Millions believe it to this day.

This novel tells how the lie was made. A technical draughtsman who turns emptiness into forms. Two sheets of paper drawn over the edge of a table on a Sunday afternoon. Forged parchments, invented lineages, eight pamphlets under names that belong to no one — smuggled into the French national library until the archive itself became their unwitting guarantor. And a curator who, forty years later, begins to pull on a single request slip.

Based on the documented events around Pierre Plantard. Everything in this book that is on record is true.

558 pages.