The Blood Gospel - Couverture rigide

Rollins, James; Cantrell, Rebecca

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ISBN 10 : 1409116344 ISBN 13 : 9781409116349

Editeur : Orion, 2013

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

In a first ever collaboration, New York Times bestselling author and master of speculative fiction James Rollins combines his signature elements of cutting edge science, religion, history, and driving narrative style with award winning author Rebecca Cantrell's breathless suspense and smoky atmosphere in a bold new gothic series about an ancient cryptic order formed in the time of Christ to protect the world against unspeakable horrors.

They were born in the time of Christ, and through the ages they have been called many names: The Strigae. The Vrykolakas. The Pishacha. They are the Sect of the Sanguines, an ancient order who stands vigilant in an unrelenting quest to destroy evil in all its horrifying forms . . .

How did Christ suddenly acquire the skills to perform miracles? Why was his first miracle turning water into wine? Why does the Catholic faith believe that the act of transubstantiation converts communion wine into Christ's holy blood?

The Blood Gospel contains the answers to these mysteries and many more, but it has been lost to history, rumors of its existence fearfully whispered amid dark shadows. But now, at a barbarous crime scene in King Herod's ancient city, the first real clue to the mysterious Gospel's hidden location has been unearthed.

No one has a greater interest in protecting the Gospel's secrets than the mysterious Sect of the Sanguines. But the key to finding the Blood Gospel lies in the hands of a non-believer. Erin Granger has no idea that her life is in mortal danger, and she must be found before a diabolical enemy seeking to possesses the Blood Gospel's power can unleash unholy hell and rend the world from its moorings. . . .

Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

When a devastating earthquake in Masada, Israel, reveals a tomb buried in the heart of the mountain, a trio of investigators - Sergeant Jordan Stone, a military forensic expert; Father Rhun Korza, a Vatican priest; and Dr Erin Granger, a brilliant archaeologist - are sent to explore the macabre discovery, a subterranean temple holding the crucified body of a mummified girl.

But a brutal attack at the site sets the three on the run, thrusting them in to a race to recover what was once preserved in the tomb's sarcophagus: a book rumoured to have been written by Christ's own hand, a tome that is said to hold the secrets to His divinity. But the enemy who hounds them is like no other, a force of ancient evil directed by a leader of impossible ambitions and incalculable cunning.

From crumbling tombs to splendorous churches, Erin and her two companions must confront a past that traces back thousands of years, to a time when ungodly beasts hunted the dark spaces of the world, to a moment in history when Christ made a miraculous offer, a pact of salvation for those who were damned for eternity.

Here is a novel that is explosive in its revelation of a secret history. Why do Catholic priests wear pectoral crosses? Why are they sworn to celibacy? And why does Catholicism insist that the consecration of wine during Mass results in its transformation to Christ's own blood? The answers go back to a secret sect within the Vatican, one whispered as rumour but whose very existence was painted for all to see by Rembrandt himself, a shadowy order known simply as the Sanguines.

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