The Last Secret Of The Temple: a rip-roaring, edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller

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Paul Sussman

The Last Secret Of The Temple

a rip-roaring, edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller

Paul Sussman

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English

Bantam
01 August 2006

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Pushing the Dan Brown buttons - a rip-roaring, edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller.

This pulse-pounding, evocative and enthralling thriller by bestselling author Paul Sussman is a must read for fans of Clive Cussler, Tom Clancy and Wilbur Smith.

""Not just a tightly-plotted, richly-observed, thought-provoking thriller, but one with a soul..."" - RAYMOND KHOURY ""Another sure fire winner from a gifted storyteller."" - STEVE BERRY ""A thriller on a par with the best literature out there"" - JAMES ROLLINS ""So much going on and lots of twists and turns keeping you on edge from start to finish."" --
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* SOME SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES TO GUARD IT. MANY WANT IT. IN THE WRONG HANDS IT COULD UNLEASH UNTOLD HORRORS...

Jerusalem, 70 AD. As the legions of Rome besiege the Holy Temple, a boy is given a secret that he must guard with his life.

Southern Germany, December 1944. Six emaciated prisoners drag a mysterious crate deep into a disused mine. They too give their lives to keep the secret safe - they are murdered by their Nazi guards.

Egypt, Valley of the Kings, present day. A body is discovered among some ruins. It appears to be an open-and-shut case but the more Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor police uncovers about the dead man, the more uneasy he becomes. And his investigation turns out to be anything but routine.

Khalifa doesn't know it yet, but he is on the trail of an extraordinary long-lost artefact that could, in the wrong hands, turn the Middle East into a blood bath.

It's a dangerous path he's taking - and to make matters worse, he's not alone...

By: Paul Sussman
Imprint: Bantam
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 106mm, Spine: 42mm
Weight: 362g
ISBN: 9780553814057
ISBN 10: 0553814052
Pages: 720
Publication Date: 01 August 2006
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Sussman is a journalist and author. He has also worked as a field archaeologist, and was part of the first team to excavate new ground in the Valley of the Kings since Tutankhamun was found in 1922. His first novel, The Lost Army of Cambyses, was an international bestseller and has been translated into 28 languages. He is married and lives in London.

Reviews for The Last Secret Of The Temple: a rip-roaring, edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller

The search for a hidden treasure that will be either a blessing or a curse for the state of Israel reopens wounds from the Holocaust and threatens to worsen the state of Arab-Israeli relations, if such a thing is possible.This latest entry in the blast from the mysterious biblical past sweepstakes begins with the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple in AD 70 and the last minute spiriting away of the Temple's greatest but mysterious and unrevealed treasure. After a side trip to the Austrian Alps as the Reich is collapsing, where SS troopers are hiding a Large Heavy Box with Unrevealed Contents in a remote salt mine (could there be a connection with the Temple Treasure?), Sussman (The Lost Army of Cambyses, 2003) sets the reader down in today's wretched Middle East for what seem to be unrelated stories in Jerusalem and Cairo, plot lines that will converge and lead - yes - to the Treasure. In Egypt, Inspector Yusuf Khalifa, an honest, hardworking detective with a strong background in archaeology who is nearly the only likable character to be introduced, takes on the case of apparently murdered Dutchman Piet Jansen. Khalifa quickly learns that Jansen was not murdered but was quite possibly the culprit 15 years earlier in Khalifa's first case as a policeman. Meanwhile, in Jerusalem, attractive but ruthless Palestinian reporter Layla al-Madani has received an anonymous letter containing a sheet of medieval code that promises to put her in touch with al-Mulatham, a renegade Palestinian firebrand. While Layla follows the code to Cambridge and Languedoc (the tragic heretical Cathars pop up briefly), heartbroken Israeli police detective Arieh Ben-Roi (a suicide bomber showed up at his wedding) nurses his rage against Palestinians, chugs vodka and follows his gut until he gets the phone call from Egypt that will start tying all the plot lines together.Clunky prose swaddles a frantic but unexceptional plot. (Kirkus Reviews)