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Also by Michael Byrnes:

The Sacred Blood, December 2009
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
The Sacred Blood, April 2009
Hardcover
The Sacred Bones, May 2008
Mass Market Paperback

THE SACRED BONES
By: Michael Byrnes

The truth will not be buried...

Harper
May 2008
On Sale: May 1, 2008
400 pages
ISBN: 0061233900
EAN: 9780061233906
Mass Market Paperback
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A brazen and violent crime occurs at the crossroads of the Christian, Islamic, and Jewish faiths—the shocking theft of ancient artifacts hidden for many centuries in a secret vault beneath Jerusalem's Temple Mount. In its wake, thirteen Israeli policemen and soldiers are dead—and the fuse is lit on a volatile Mideast powder keg, threatening an explosion that could devastate the world.

In Italy, American forensic scientist Charlotte Hennesey has answered a Vatican summons asking for help. Joining with Italian anthropologist Giovanni Bersei, she embarks upon a perilous journey down a twisted path of revelations prowled by sinister zealots and relentless cold killers. For they must expose the astonishing secrets locked in the ancient bones resting in a newly unearthed burial box—the skeleton of a man who lived and died in the first century; a man who was scourged and stabbed . . . and crucified.