I don't remember when I read this book. I think it was in one of those volumes of novels condensed by Reader's Digest. It was sort of in the form of a mystery novel. There were reports of an angel shot down (I think) and taken to a hospital, where he subsequently died. The protagonist(s) are investigating this story, trying to find out, I suppose, if it is a hoax of some sort. Eventually they learn that it is all true, except that the angel was actually an alien life form who either happened to look like an angel, or previous visits by his people were the origin of the idea of angels ... it was a long time ago, so I don't remember which it was. Anyway, before he died he told someone he had come to this planet to deliver a book. His people had travelled to many planets across the galaxy in order to put the collective wisdom of all the different species into one book, and when they had done so they were on a mission to bring this wisdom to all the people of the galaxy. So then the investigators had to find the book. And when they did, they found that what it contained was the same sentence over and over. It seems like the kind of book I would like to read again at Christmas time, if I only knew what it was.
Does anyone recognize it?
Does anyone recognize it?
