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May 19, 2005

Givenchy Meets Dan Brown

Just in time for summer reading, Escober is shamelessly plugging his "The Givenchy Code: An Homage and A Parody" as being the most salacious writings since Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code hit the stalls.

The book's publicist, in terms bordering on pleading, warns the Catholic Church it is in for another shocker: "There is also definitely the potential here that readers may take The Givenchy Code �secret� as fact and may become profoundly troubled by it. Uh-oh, it looks like the Vatican has another apocryphal problem on its pious hands. It certainly appears like a baptism of fire for the new Pope Benedict XVI."

Monsters and Critics says about the book: "The murder of a prominent French personality in the fragrance industry jumpstarts this exhilarating code-cracking ride all over Paris and deep into the heart of a religious conspiracy that centers around the real identity of a religious icon. In a spine-tingling blend of electrifying adventure, scholarly intrigue and unforgettable, unpredictable moments, The Givenchy Code gleefully, perversely parodies scenes and pays homage to that brilliantly written �other code� novel, while poking benign fun at the fragrance industry and ultimately conjecturing an out-of-this-world theory that the most venerated relic of them all was indeed not a cup but something far more shockingly extraordinary!"

Escober "does not try very hard to hide the almost literal similarities of his narrative to those of the Da Vinci Code�to the point where you would swear you were reading The Da Vinci Code all over again," said book reviewer Allen Gaborro. "In The Givenchy Code, you have the hair-raising specters of cold-blooded murder, conspiratorial machinations, perilous escapades and intractable machinations afoot� which closely simulates the structure and atmosphere of Dan Brown�s book while steering clear of the sensitive borders of plagiarism.�.

"As a parody, the book�s inventive spoof and imitation of The Da Vinci Code, especially its own bombshell of a secret concerning the Grail, can be considered as explosive-- and as offensive to the Catholic Church-- as the Da Vinci Code�s Mary Magdalene storyline," according to the press statement. "The Givenchy Code�s cover, a Mona Lisa who not only smiles but also conspiratorially winks at us, hints at this surprising-beyond-belief mystery of the Holy Grail. No shortcuts are permitted here, though this much can be revealed: the �secret� has nothing to do with Mary Magdalene�and the Grail is not a cup�definitely not a cup."

Escober� admits that his Givenchy Code, like The Da Vinci Code, mixes "some fact with a great deal of fiction," to support his Grail�s identity with factual evidence.

Escober worked as a copywriter for McCann-Erickson Advertising Agency in the Philippines before immigrating to the United States, and initiating a career in writing both fiction novels and screenplays. Previously Escober wrote a novel titled Not My Bowl of Rice.

"In the Philippines, after finishing a course in Mass Communications, I worked as a copywriter for an American advertising agency. In America, I used that experience to gain employment as a classified ad representative for an East Coast-based newspaper, an advertising salesperson for a California-based real estate newspaper, then an advertising copywriter, and finally, a researcher/recruiter for a Berkeley-based pharmaceutical marketing research firm. During all this, I knew that my real ambitions lie in writing and I worked actively during my off time creating screenplays and my first novel," according to Escober's website at: TheGivenchyCode.com.

ER Escober's The Givenchy Code is available at Amazon.com and Xlibris.com (ISBN 1413480314)

Posted by at May 19, 2005 11:33 PM

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