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The Last Testament

โœ Scribed by Bourne, Sam

Book ID
107837763
Publisher
Harper
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
283 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780061866425

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โœฆ Synopsis

EDITORIAL REVIEW: 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 gunonly 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 historiansthose 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 hostilitiesor spark the war to end all wars.

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