Description
In 2004, as Pope John Paul IIโs reign enters its twilight, a mysterious exhibit is under construction at the Vatican Museums. A week before it is scheduled to open, its curator is murdered at a clandestine meeting on the outskirts of Rome. That same night, a violent break-in rocks the home of the curatorโs research partner, Father Alex Andreou, a Greek Catholic priest who lives inside the Vatican with his five-year-old son. When the papal police fail to identify a suspect in either crime, Father Alex, desperate to keep his family safe, undertakes his own investigation.To find the killer he must reconstruct the dead curatorโs secret: what the four Christian gospels -- and a little-known, true-to-life fifth gospel known as the Diatessaron -- reveal about the Churchโs most controversial holy relic. But just as he begins to understand the truth about his friendโs death and its consequences for the future of the worldโs two largest Christian Churches, Father Alex finds himself hunted down by someone with a vested stake in the exhibit -- someone he must outwit to survive. ISBN:9781501131967
