Ein kleiner Junge stiehlt ein Keilschrifttäfelchen aus dem Museum von Bagdad.
Monate danach erschüttert eine brutale Mordserie Israel. Die Opfer sind allesamt Archäologen und Historiker jene, die um die Geheimnisse der Vergangenheit wissen. Gibt es ein mörderisches Komplott, das zur Eskalation im Nahen Osten führen könnte? Washington schickt Starverhandlerin Maggie Costello nach Jerusalem. Von allen Seiten bedroht, jagt Maggie einer Spur nach, die zu uralten Schrifttafeln und zum letzten Willen Abrahams führt. Die Wahrheit kann Frieden bringen oder Krieg auslösen...

Informationen zum Autor Sam Bourne is the pseudonym of Jonathan Freedland, an award-winning journalist and broadcaster. He has written a weekly column for the Guardian since 1997, having previously served as the paper's Washington correspondent, and presents Radio 4's contemporary history programme, The Long View. His first novel, The Righteous Men, was a Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller. He lives in London with his wife and their two children. Klappentext From the Number One bestselling author of The Righteous Men comes this staggering religious conspiracy thriller. The Last Testament: It was written. It was lost. It will save us all. April 2003: as the Baghdad Museum of Antiquities is looted, a teenage Iraqi boy finds an ancient clay tablet in a long-forgotten vault. He takes it and runs off into the night ... Several years later, at a peace rally in Jerusalem, the Israeli prime minister is about to sign a historic deal with the Palestinians. A man approaches from the crowd and seems to reach for a gun - bodyguards shoot him dead. But in his hand was a note, one he wanted to hand to the prime minister. The shooting sparks a series of tit-for-tat killings which could derail the peace accord. Washington sends for trouble-shooter and peace negotiator Maggie Costello, after she thought she had quit the job for good. She follows a trail that takes her from Jewish settlements on the West Bank to Palestinian refugee camps, where she discovers the latest deaths are not random but have a distinct pattern. All the dead men are archaeologists and historians - those who know the buried secrets of the ancient past. Menaced by fanatics and violent extremists on all sides, Costello is soon plunged into high-stakes international politics, the worldwide underground trade in stolen antiquities and a last, unsolved riddle of the Bible.

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Sam Bourne is the pseudonym of Jonathan Freedland, an award-winning journalist and broadcaster. He has written a weekly column for the Guardian since 1997, having previously served as the paper's Washington correspondent, and presents Radio 4's contemporary history programme, The Long View. His first novel, The Righteous Men, was a Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller. He lives in London with his wife and their two children.

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Praise for 'The Righteous Men':

'The biggest challenger to Dan Brown's crown ... a highly charged, theologically accurate tale' Mirror

'Compulsive reading ... successfully blends ancient teachings with the highly charged ways of the 21st century ... bears all the hallmarks of a blockbuster' Daily Express

'The best thriller I've read in years.' Piers Morgan

'More readable than The Da Vinci Code - the sense of menace is darker and the characters more believable' Esquire