The Sacred Blood
SPIES, CONSPIRACY, MURDER... THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SACRED BONES God's Covenant with Israel is incomplete... The dust has barely settled in the Holy Land when a group of archaeologists in the Judean desert stumble upon a secret room inside a cave. Its walls are...
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SPIES, CONSPIRACY, MURDER...
THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SACRED BONES
God's Covenant with Israel is incomplete...
The dust has barely settled in the Holy Land when a group of archaeologists in the Judean desert stumble upon a secret room inside a cave. Its walls are covered in Egyptian hieroglyphs including the curious image of a dolphin wrapped around a trident. An old clay jar bearing this unusual symbol is also discovered —— containing an ancient scroll.
Elsewhere, a secret, extreme Jewish sect called the sons of Light is determined to change the course of theological history forever. To do so they need DNA from a 2,000-year-old skeleton. When it is revealed that this same DNA also runs through the veins of a living person, a race begins to kidnap the fated girl and forever change the world's destiny.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781847372383 (1847372384)
Publish date: 2009
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages no: 401
Edition language: English
This is the sequel to The Sacred Bones, which I quite liked, so I had been looking forward to read this book. The story sets off right after the first book ended. If you think you don't recall anything from the first book, it might just be a good idea to reread the first novel. Or else, just try a...
There must be a particular sub-genre of the action-adventure novel, one that relies on a discovery from antiquity that has real-world implications for power in the 21st century, or that upends hundreds or thousands of years of presumed wisdom. Surely the top of this heap is The DaVinci Codes. Righte...
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