New York Timesabestselling author Robin Cook returns with another rippedfromtheheadlines medical thriller where DNA science biotechnology andreligion collide. J... » 

New York Timesabestselling author Robin Cook returns with another rippedfromtheheadlines medical thriller where DNA science biotechnology andreligion collide. Jackas classmate Shawn Doherty is now a renowned archeologistand biblical scholar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art whose taste for goodwine and generally deteriorating health are taking a toll on his career. He hasrecently obtained permission for a final dig beneath Saint Peteras and despitehis longstanding grudge against the Catholic Church begins his researchawhicheventually takes him to Jerusalem and Venice aonly to make a startlingdiscovery with ecclesiastical and medical implications. And when Kevin Murraynow Bishop of the Archdiocese of New York gets wind of Shawnas findings heasdesperate to keep them from the public. Kevin has strong political ambitionswithinthe Church but his association with Shawn threatens to undermine them.Kevin turns to his old friend Jack to help protect an explosive secretaone withthe power to change lives forever. «