The Fire Sermon

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Hardcover

1st

Alternating Person

Fiction

442

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’Shots rang out across the cathedral. Cries suddenly silenced. Death stalked the cathedral as the monks slaughtered the few remaining survivors...All for a sack of bones. Why? Why steal the bones of the Magi?’ During a service at Cologne cathedral, a band of armed intruders dressed in monks’ robes unleash a nightmare of blood and terror, gunning down worshippers and clergy alike. The killers haven’t come for the church’s riches, but for a priceless treasure within: the bones of the Three Magi who once came to pay homage to a newborn saviour. The Vatican is in turmoil, and Lieutenant Rachel Verona of Rome’s Carabinieri is assigned to investigate. But no ordinary police organization can deal with this case, and SIGMA Force - an elite covert arm if the US Defence Department - is called in, under the command of Grayson Pierce. He must lead his team through a labyrinth of clues and dark revelations that carry them via the Seven Wonders of the World, right to the doorstep of the mysterious Dragon Court. An ancient fraternity of alchemists and assassins, the Dragon Court has plans for the relics that will alter civilization in devastating ways that only the maddest of zealots could desire - and they will let nothing stand in their way. Suddenly Pierce, Verona, and the SIGMA team are the hunted as well as the hunters, forced to use all their skills to survive as they track the bones to a cataclysmic confrontation - in a lost place of history where science and religion will unite to unleash a horror not seen since the beginning of time.

Harper Voyager

9780007563098

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2018-06-26 15:56:22