Book description
For three thousand years, the world's most dangerous treasure has
been lost. Now the code that reveals its hiding place is about to be
broken ...
Sam Grant is a disgraced ex-SOE soldier and an adventurer by trade.
But he has a secret: six years ago, a dying archaeologist entrusted
him with his life's work - transcripts of mysterious writing found in
a hidden cave on Crete. Deciphered, it could lead to one of the
greatest prizes in history. But the treasure is as dangerous as it is
valuable. The CIA wants it; so does the KGB. Helped by a brilliant
Oxford professor, and a beautiful Greek archaeologist with her own
secrets to hide, Grant is plunged into a labyrinth of ancient cults,
forgotten mysteries and lost civilizations. But time is running out.
The secrets of the distant past may hold the key to the newest
threats of the modern world...
Tom Harper (real name Edwin Thomas) won the CWA debut award in 2001
for
The Blighted Cliffs
. He also wrote
The Mosaic of Shadows, Knights of the Cross,
and
Siege of Heaven
, published by Random House.
