This is the new, brilliantly high-concept religious conspiracy-theory thriller from the author of "The Righteous Men", set against the backdrop of the world's bitterest conflict. April 2003: as the Baghdad Museum of Antiquities is looted, a teenage Iraqi boy finds an ancient scroll in a long-forgotten vault. He takes it and runs off into the night! Several years later, at a rally for peace in Jerusalem, the Israeli prime minister is about to sign a historic deal with the Palestinians. A man approaches from the crowd and seems to reach for a gun - bodyguards shoot him dead. But...Read more
This is the new, brilliantly high-concept religious conspiracy-theory thriller from the author of "The Righteous Men", set against the backdrop of the world's bitterest conflict. April 2003: as the Baghdad Museum of Antiquities is looted, a teenage Iraqi boy finds an ancient scroll in a long-forgotten vault. He takes it and runs off into the night! Several years later, at a rally for peace in Jerusalem, the Israeli prime minister is about to sign a historic deal with the Palestinians. A man approaches from the crowd and seems to reach for a gun - bodyguards shoot him dead. But in his hand was a note, one he wanted to hand to the prime minister. The shooting sparks a spate of tit-for-tat killings and State Department official Bobby Dean is called to Jerusalem to investigate. She follows a trail that will lead her to Jewish settlements on the West Bank and Palestinian refugee camps, where she will have to outwit fanatics and violent extremists on all sides. Bobby discovers the existence of an ancient text, one stolen from the Baghdad museum as the Americans invaded in April 2003.
It is a document written by history's most famous resident of Mesopotamia, the land that used to be Iraq: it is the will of the great patriarch, Abraham himself. In that text, Abraham reveals which of his sons is the true inheritor of Jerusalem. Is it Isaac, father of the Jews or Ishmail, father of the Arabs? Once the truth is revealed, Bobby knows it will set the conflict on fire. She has to get to that scroll before anyone else. But both sides are racing to find it first. Who will get it - and what will it reveal?
It is a document written by history's most famous resident of Mesopotamia, the land that used to be Iraq: it is the will of the great patriarch, Abraham himself. In that text, Abraham reveals which of his sons is the true inheritor of Jerusalem. Is it Isaac, father of the Jews or Ishmail, father of the Arabs? Once the truth is revealed, Bobby knows it will set the conflict on fire. She has to get to that scroll before anyone else. But both sides are racing to find it first. Who will get it - and what will it reveal?
- ISBN10 0007203314
- ISBN13 9780007203314
- Publish Date 4 June 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 June 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 472
- Language English