Meet Wyatt Rook,      lawyer, historian, detective...

For his 13th thriller, lawyer Michael Slade turns devil's advocate and conjures up a Christian's worst nightmare. The story arcs from Jerusalem, 33 A.D., when Jesus was crucified, to present-day Germany, Italy, and Britain. A World War Two bomber has been unearthed half a century after vanishing on a secret mission. Liz Hannah, the pilot's granddaughter, hires New York attorney Rook to investigate. Soon, his inquiries lead him into a shadowy world of religious secrecy that involves the crucifixion at Golgotha, the Crusades, the Inquisition, and Satanism. With a painting and a map as clues, the reader and Rook must solve three whodunits (one historical), two locked-room puzzles (in a bomber and a U-boat), and a series of biblical mysteries to unravel the greatest locked-room puzzle of all: How did Jesus escape from his tomb? Blocking Rook at every turn is the Legionary of Christ, a modern Crusader backed by a murderous Inquisition that will stop at nothing to keep the Judas puzzle - the Achilles heel of the Christian Bible - from being solved.

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