In 1453 the collapse of Byzantine Orthodox Christianity's most
sacred City, Constantinople, radiated shocks through the entirety
of the Christian world. Symbolically, the Islamic Ottoman Turks had
made Santa Sophia, the most famous Christian church in the world,
into a mosque. Any doubts that there was a now an Ottoman Empire
poised to conquer the Christian West were dispelled. But the
history around the collapse itself was surrounded with loose ends
and oddities. This novel fastens on one of these pieces. When
Constantinople fell there was a huge amount of slaughter and
pillage by the Ottomans. There are some doubts about what happened
to the Christian Emperor, Constantius. It is said that he was
killed in battle but some accounts suggest otherwise. During much
of World War II Nazis occupied Greece. The Greeks put up a torrid
resistance to this occupation. On the island of Lesbos two
resistance fighters came onto a cache of objects that could turn
history on its head. But the cache is re-buried until at last the
two fighters, now in their eighties, must face the question of
whether to reveal their find. Bertrand McAbee is a PI residing in
the heart of the Mississippi Valley in Davenport, Iowa. A former
college professor of classics, he has been in the PI business for
ten years. He has a knack for getting involved in situations that
mushroom into particularly difficult and dangerous cases. At the
deathbed request of one of these Greek resistance fighters, McAbee
is asked to go to Mt. Athos in Greece, the monastic center of the
Orthodox Church, and speak with the other resistance fighter about
the cache found years back in Lesbos. After he consents to do so he
will encounter an extraordinary set of deadly obstacles as he
confronts a historical dilemma.
General
Imprint: |
Authorhouse
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2010 |
First published: |
October 2010 |
Authors: |
Joseph A. Mccaffrey
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - With printed dust jacket / With dust jacket
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Pages: |
316 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4520-7224-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Adventure / thriller >
General
Promotions
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LSN: |
1-4520-7224-8 |
Barcode: |
9781452072241 |
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