The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson
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I was given this book as a present and settled down with it on Good Friday 2007 (6 April) in what became a compulsive period of nonstop reading.
This book relates the 'last testament' of a disgraced Scottish minister, Gideon Mack, whose mind was undone after he fell into a treacherous underground river, was lost for three days and re-emerged claiming to have spent his missing time in the company of the Devil in an underground cave.
On page 262, in the Penguin paperback version which I read, as part of Gideon Mack’s claim that he met the Devil, he noted that his wristwatch had stopped at 3:37 on the sixth day of the month. As I read that line, I looked up from my reading at the wall clock and it was exactly 3:37 on the sixth of April 2007!
Spooky.....................
Date submitted:Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:30:33 +0000Coincidence ID:5639
