A new, brilliantly layered religious conspiracy thriller from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Righteous Men, set against the backdrop of the world?s most bitter international conflict.
Harper
April 2010
On Sale: March 30, 2010
Featuring: Maggie Costello
432 pages ISBN: 0061470872 EAN: 9780061470875 Mass Market Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
April 2003: an Iraqi boy loots an ancient clay tablet from a long-forgotten vault in the Baghdad Museum of Antiquities. Years later, at a rally for the signing of a historic deal between Israel and the Palestinians, a suspected assassin pushes through the crowd toward the Israeli prime minister. Bodyguards shoot the man dead. But in his hand there is no gunβonly a blood-stained note.
A series of seemingly random revenge killings follows and tensions boil over. Washington calls in star peace-negotiator Maggie Costello. With her relationship in trouble and old sins to atone for, Maggie finds herself in an impossible situation, especially when she discovers the murders are not random.
Someone is killing archaeologists and historiansβthose who know the buried secrets of the ancient past. Menaced on all sides by violent extremists, Costello is plunged into a mystery rooted in the last unsolved riddle of the Bible. The truth could end hostilitiesβor spark the war to end all wars.
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