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  • By: Sam Bourne
  • Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
  • Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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Summary

April 2003: as the Baghdad Museum of Antiquities is looted, a teenage Iraqi boy finds an ancient clay tablet in a long-forgotten vault. He takes it and runs off into the night.

Several years later, at a peace rally in Jerusalem, the Israeli prime minister is about to sign a historic deal with the Palestinians. A man approaches from the crowd and seems to reach for a gun; bodyguards shoot him dead. But in his hand was a note, one he wanted to hand to the prime minister. The shooting sparks a series of tit-for-tat killings that could derail the peace accord.

Washington sends for trouble-shooter and peace negotiator Maggie Costello, after she thought she had quit the job for good. She follows a trail that takes her from Jewish settlements on the West Bank to Palestinian refugee camps, where she discovers the latest deaths are not random but have a distinct pattern. All the dead men are archaeologists and historians - those who know the buried secrets of the ancient past.

Menaced by fanatics and violent extremists on all sides, Costello is soon plunged into high-stakes international politics, the worldwide underground trade in stolen antiquities and a last, unsolved riddle of the Bible.

©2007 Jonathan Freedland (P)2006 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London UK

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Predictable but okay for a freebie.

This is a largely implausible story, frustrating in its rather dim characters and predictable outcomes. It's okay but no intellectual challenge.

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I hate abridged books

Have read a later book in the series and wanted to start from the beginning. Books 1 & 2 are only available abridged. I have the gist of the story, but feel I missed so much Undecided whether to listen to book 2 or just go straight to the full books.

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A fast paced thriller

A good story although a little far fetched. A good performance in the story telling.

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