"The body of Christ," Daniel said. "What if it was simply ... left behind?"Daniel Foster is a man driven by his own, unearthly obsessions. Part of an investigative theological team from the darkened hallways of a prominent New Orleans university, Daniel is about to uncover a centuries-long secret that could not only threaten his own perception of reality, but the reality of the modern world as we know it. The Petrified Christ is a novel of discovery, with innocence lost through the most extreme elements of the human experience -- fear, madness and a direct confrontation with evil itself.