Viking Press
May 2013
On Sale: May 2, 2013
Featuring: Jess Silverton; Adam Blackwood
368 pages ISBN: 0670026646 EAN: 9780670026647 Kindle: B008EKOP4A Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
From Templar Knights to Mexican drug cartels, Tom Knox returns with an electrifying new novel
Journalist Adam Blackwood is chasing down the story of a lifetimeβthe worldβs foremost Templar historian has committed suicide in Edinburgh, leaving behind a tantalizing clue about a secret object hidden in the famous chapel of Rosslyn that will connect to Templar sites throughout Europe, North Africa, and South America.
Meanwhile in Peru, anthropologist Jess Silverton is researching a bloodthirsty, sexually voracious ancient civilization that might have laid the foundations for both Judaism and Buddhism. Amid the turmoil of local gangs and corrupt drug corporations, she becomes entangled in a plot that spans continents and reaches across time. At the beating heart of the novel is a rare flower from the darkest regions of the Amazon that has the power to seduce and control all of mankind.