Blood and Bone (A Jack Hawthorne Adventure Book #3)
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4.3 • 4 Ratings
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Publisher Description
More Archaeological Adventures from Popular Suspense Writer Don Hoesel
A decade after Serpent of Moses, Jack is married to Espy and back teaching at Evanston University. They have two sons, one of whom has cystic fibrosis. Despite this challenge, life is comfortable. But that all changes when the CIA, while combing through the papers of the late Gordon Reese, uncovers the secret of Elisha's bones. Jack's world is then turned upside down by an urgent call from his old friend Duckey, who's been alerted to the CIA's probing by one of his former contacts. Jack and his family escape from their home just ahead of the CIA, and he decides to do what he should have done long ago: recover the bones and destroy them. Except the bones aren't where he left them.
So now Jack is in a race, for the last time, to find the bones. And he's not the only one. Pitted against both the CIA and an organization that will kill to protect their secrets, Jack and Espy follow hard-to-decipher clues across the globe before arriving in the catacombs of Paris for a final showdown that will either save their family--or tear apart everything they hold dear forever.
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Hoesel's third book featuring archaeologist Dr. Jack Hawthorne (Elisha's Bones, Serpent of Moses) has the hero again in search of Elisha's bones, which he found and buried 13 years ago but this time the lives of his sons are at stake. Rogue CIA agent Marcus McKeller wants the bones, and as Jack and his wife Esperanza desperately search for the bones stolen from a burial spot in the Australian desert, another enemy threatens. Jack and Espy elude killers in Australia, ending up in London looking for information about an age-old organization tasked with protecting Elisha's bones. They wander cemeteries; hole up in no-name hotels; dash to St. Petersburg, Russia; find hidden chambers; annoy the Mossad, Israel's spy agency; and slowly piece together the history of a mysterious religious group before a final showdown in Paris. Hoesel has created a tale worthy of Indiana Jones and Robert Langdon, complete with secret codes, ancient artifacts, globetrotting action, and wily enemies. An exhilarating read for sure.
