The sacred bones / Michael Byrnes.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Harper, c2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: 386 p. ; 18 cmISBN:- 0061233900
- 9780061233906
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Byrnes, Michae | Available | 33111006744706 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A brazen and violent crime occurs at the crossroads of the Christian, Islamic, and Jewish faiths--the shocking theft of ancient artifacts hidden for many centuries in a secret vault beneath Jerusalem's Temple Mount. In its wake, thirteen Israeli policemen and soldiers are dead--and the fuse is lit on a volatile Mideast powder keg, threatening an explosion that could devastate the world.
In Italy, American forensic scientist Charlotte Hennesey has answered a Vatican summons asking for help. Joining with Italian anthropologist Giovanni Bersei, she embarks upon a perilous journey down a twisted path of revelations prowled by sinister zealots and relentless cold killers. For they must expose the astonishing secrets locked in the ancient bones resting in a newly unearthed burial box--the skeleton of a man who lived and died in the first century; a man who was scourged and stabbed . . . and crucified.
When an ancient burial ossuary is stolen from beneath Jerusalem's Temple Mount and delivered to the Vatican, forensic scientist Charlotte Hennesey is hired to conduct highly sensitive genetic tests on the two-thousand-year-old bones.