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Welcome to the TRB Lounge. Today, we are featuring Tom Lysaght for their latest release, The Fatima File: The Case of the Missing Millennium.

Book: THE FATIMA FILE: The Case of the Missing Millennium
Author: Tom Lysaght 
Publication Date: 12 May 2026
Publisher: –
Pages: 416
Genre: Religious Mystery, Political Thriller, Suspense
Available Formats: Ebook and Paperback
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About the Book

She uncovered a secret that powerful men will kill to protect.

Former nun Dr. Jackie McBride once sought heaven. Now, as an astrophysicist, she searches the heavens for truth.

When Jackie uncovers collusion between the Vatican Observatory and a shadow American cabal, she finds evidence of a suppressed reality guarded for generations with lethal force.

The Fatima File contains a revelation powerful enough to fracture the foundations of religious belief—and expose the military-industrial security state.

Now Jackie is a target.

As CIA operatives close in, she joins forces with a disillusioned FBI agent, a Jesuit priest, and a devout circle of young Shi’ah Muslims.

Together they follow a trail of deception from Fatima to Rome to Mount Sinai.

But every revelation brings Jackie closer to a truth more dangerous than the men hunting her.

Because the greatest danger is not the conspiracy.

It is the secret itself.

The Fatima File: The Case of the Missing Millennium is a conspiracy thriller of religious-political intrigue, covert power, and a revelation that could redefine reality.

“An exceptional novel, with great pacing and characters, playing into the zeitgeist of what’s haunting us as a society today.”
— Andra Miller, former Executive Editor at Random House

You can find The Fatima File here
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About The Author

Tom Lysaght

Raised Irish-Catholic in Brooklyn, Harvard graduate Tom Lysaght has written some 30 plays in both English and Spanish. His Off-Broadway play, Nobody Don’t Like Yogi, starring Emmy-winning actor Ben Gazzara as Yogi Berra, toured nationally. He was founding director and resident playwright of El Teatro de Pan y Paz (Bread and Peace Theater), while also serving as Manager of Radio Bahá’í of Lake Titicaca during his three-year residence in the Andes of Peru. He is the recipient of some dozen writing fellowships, including the MacDowell Colony, the Edward Albee Foundation, Scotland’s Hawthornden Castle, and the Israeli Center for the Arts. His published prose includes a historical novel (Persian Passion, 2019), a generational memoir (Old Wives’ Tales, 2022), and a collection of memories and essays (The Inner Atlas, 2025). A chapter of his memoir, Till Your Father Comes Home, can be read on his website, Social Drama/Sacred Space, which serves as a resource for utilizing theater in grassroots community building: Visit that resource or Tom him at: http://www.yourcreativestage.com/

His illustrated novella, Valley of the Birds, a fable of flight, and the second volume of his Persian Passion trilogy are both forthcoming. Lysaght lives in Los Angeles.

You can find author Lysaght here:
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