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ARK OF WAR IBD

XLIBRIS
12 / 2012
9781479755301
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Sinopsis

WHILE DEFENDING THE ACCUSED IN A MILITARY COURTMARTIAL,NEW YORK CITY&rsquo,S RENOWNED DEFENSE ATTORNEY,SOLOMON GOLDMAN, fi nds himself drugged and abducted in broaddaylight, only to awaken inside a nuclear submarine on its way to the Middle East. Hiscaptor, a beautiful and mysterious Egyptian agent named Eteye Azeb, tells Goldman thathis brother is commanding a secret military operation south of Bagdad, at the lost city ofBabylon, where an uncovered religious scroll obscurely mentioned in the bible contains anancient Egyptian code. This code leads to the hidden location of the most sought aftertreasure of antiquity&mdash,the Ark of the Covenant.Goldman&rsquo,s brother has now mysteriously gone missing with the scroll and is wanted for theftand treason.The Middle East is pushed to the brink when Iranian commandos recover abandonedAmerican nuclear torpedoes from the ocean&rsquo,s fl oor. The stakes are raised even further whenGoldman is caught up in an international conspiracy to recover and use the sacred Ark ofthe Covenant as a modern day military weapon. For reasons Solomon Goldman doesn&rsquo,tyet understand, all eyes are on him as he tries to pick up the trail of his missing brother andlocate the clues to the missing treasure map.In a breathless race over four continents, Goldman must follow the signs, hidden awayfor millenniums, that lead to the Ark, all while struggling with his own religious doubtsand unbelief&rsquo,s. At every turn fate seems to draw him deeper into Eteye&rsquo,s cryptic worldof unexplained past connections. Who really is this woman? Unless he can decipher thebiblical secrets and fi nd the ancient Ark before the world',s superpowers do, the Ark of Warmay be lost forever&mdash,or worse yet, used as a modern day weapon of mass destruction.