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Spædingsroman. Harry Blake lever et stille liv som forhandler af gamle kort i en lille engelsk by, indtil en lokal landmand beder ham om et vurdere et 400 år gammelt tidsskrift og dernæst brutalt bliver myrdet "Harry Blake appreciates the quiet life. As an antique-map dealer in a small English town, he rarely strays from the straight and narrow. But when a local landowner asks him to value a four-hundred-year-old journal and is then brutally murdered, Harry's peace of mind is shattered." "What does the dusty journal contain that is a matter of life or death? Why is someone prepared to pay Harry a fortune to get hold of it? He turns to marine historian Zola Khan to uncover the mysteries." "The trail of the journal leads them into a world of deadly Elizabethan conspiracies, and the thread of history takes them through a thousand years of religious intrigue back to the blood-soaked Crusades and the secret location of an ancient holy relic." "Can Harry and Zola find the missing piece of a celestial puzzle that is attracting some particularly violent and single-minded adversaries? Their journey takes them to the beautiful Caribbean island of Jamaica, but dark shadows are lengthening and at stake are millions of dollars and a terrorist plot to trigger nothing less than war."--BOOK JACKET The fourth, electrifying thriller from Britain's answer to Michael Crichton