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The Templar Legacy : a Novel
by Steve Berry
Cotton Malone, a former covert U.S. Justice Department operative, and his ex-supervisor Stephanie Nelle, follow a labyrinthine trail of danger, treachery, high-level intrigue, and overwhelming ambition across Europe on a quest that leads them to the enigmatic secrets of the Knights Templar.
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The Rule of Four
by Ian Caldwell
Endeavoring to decipher a five-hundred-year old text that weaves a mathematical labyrinth within a love story, researchers Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris obtain a diary that may contain the key to the code, but when a fellow researcher is killed, they realize that the book contains a dangerous secret.
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Plague Ship: a Novel of the Oregon Files
by Clive Cussler
A new installment in a series featuring Captain Juan Cabrillo and his intelligence-gathering ship-for-hire finds the crew encountering an adrift cruise ship filled with hundreds of dead passengers that eventually leads to the discovery of a cult's devastating plot for the human race.
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Relic: the Quest for the Golden Shrine
by Tom Egeland
An archeologist finds himself on a quest for a golden relic which contains an ancient manuscript that could change the course of history.
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Day of Confession
by Allan Folsom
After receiving word that his brother, a Vatican priest, has been killed in a bus explosion in Italy, entertainment lawyer Harry Addison heads to Italy, only to discover that his brother is the prime suspect in the murder of a leading cardinal and that he himself is believed to be an accomplice.
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Codex
by Lev Grossman
An investment banker is sent by his firm to organize a collection of rare books for a mysterious, important client and realizes that there may be a medieval codex hidden among the volumes that surprisingly parallels a computer game's addictive virtual reality world.
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The Sign
by Raymond Khoury
When a scientific expedition is swallowed up by a shimmering sphere of light during a live CNN report, a devastated viewer in a dusty Egyptian bar recognizes the phenomenon, which is declared by some as proof of God's existence. By the author of The Last Templar.
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The Babylon Rite
by Tom Knox
When the world's foremost Templar historian commits suicide, leaving behind a clue about a secret hidden object in the famous chapel of Rosslyn, anthropologist Jess Silverton researches an ancient civilization linked to the foundations of Judaism and Buddhism and a plot involving a rare and dangerous Amazon flower.
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The Death Relic
by Chris Kuzneski
When her research team goes missing in the Yucatán Peninsula while investigating a powerful legendary artifact from the Aztec and Mayan civilizations, archaeologist Maria Pelati enlists Jonathon Payne and David Jones to help in the search, which is subsequently tied to one of the darkest mysteries of the New World.
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The Romanov Conspiracy : a Thriller
by Glenn Meade
Dr. Laura Pavlov, an American forensic archaeologist, is about to unravel a mystery that promises to shed light on one of the 20th century's greatest enigmas. A member of an international team digging on the outskirts of the present-day Russian city of Ekaterinburg, where the Romanov royal family was executed in July 1918, Pavlov discovers a body perfectly preserved in the permafrost of a disused mine shaft. The remains offer dramatic new clues to the disappearance of the Romanovs, and in particular their famous daughter, Princess Anastasia, whose murder has always been in question.
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The Ark : a Novel
by Boyd Morrison
After a series of tragedies, archaeologist Dilara Kenner and former combat engineer Tyler Locke realize that they have just seven days to find the remains of Noah's Ark before shadowy agents use its secret to wipe out civilization once again. A first novel.
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The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
by Julia Navarro
A catastrophic fire at the Turin cathedral, where the Holy Shroud is kept, and discovery of a dead man without a tongue set off an investigation by the elite Italian Art Crimes Department that leads back to the mysterious origins of the relic and involves a secretive cadre of powerful men with its roots in the time of the Templars.
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The Dante Club: a Novel
by Matthew Pearl
In 1865, the preparations of the Dante Club--whose members include Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes--to release the first translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy are threatened by a series of murders that re-create episodes from the Inferno.
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The Doomsday Key: a Sigma Force Novel
by James Rollins
The best-selling author of The Last Oracle and The Judas Strain presents a latest work in which the Sigma Force must solve a centuries-old secret involving coded prophecies about dark events leading to a future apocalypse.
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The Labyrinth of Osiris
by Paul Sussman
Detective Arieh-Ben Roi of the Jerusalem police investigates the murder of a well-known Israeli journalist and, with the help of Luxor police detective Yusuf Khalifa, discovers a connection to the mysterious death of a 1930s Egyptologist, who had claimed to have uncovered a labyrinth of unfathomable treasures.
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Frozen Solid : a Novel
by James M. Tabor
When a zealous group of scientists launches a plot to release a pandemic virus to end overpopulation, Hallie Leland races against time during a brutal week at the South Pole to save the world from mass annihilation. By the best-selling author of The Deep Zone.
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Savior's Day
by Alan A. Winter
Cardinal Arnold Ford, head of the Archdiocese of New York, witnesses a murder on the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral. With the old man's dying breath, he hands the Cardinal a sliver of ancient parchment to keep and protect. How can the lost pages of an ancient treasure threaten the very existence of the State of Israel?
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