After the success of his first novel"The Xhosa Double," Ned Livingstone has now written "The Scroll of Copper,"a gripping tale of the search for truth set in the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the Americas, before the Arab Spring. Intrigue, murder, disinformation and the workings of governmental authorities in cohort with Mafia hit men are exposed.... Humankind, it would seem, has been cocooned from the evidence of visitation by superior civilizations from afar, by the powers that be... It becomes necessary to access two ancient scrolls, one of velum and the other of copper in order to find the answers... The story moves at rapid pace, keeping the reader's attention throughout...