The Babylon Contingency
Archaeology at its most dangerous
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Investigating a burglary at an English country house, DI Robbie Peele comes face to face with some of the most mysterious objects in world archaeology, disks similar to the Phaestos Disk - and with a Middle Eastern terrorist cell determined to steal them. Why - and why are Mossad involved?. The vital clue is a long abandoned Muslim village in Crete, where terrible things happened more than a century ago, witnessed by a Victorian gentleman explorer who recorded what he saw in coded diaries. Seeking the truth about the strange disks, Peele and his assistant, Sarah Shipton, head to Crete. But Crete poses as many puzzles as it solves. In the end Peele has to ask far harder questions than simply who did the original burglary - the answer to which infuriates him. What do the disks really say, in what language, and who made them? And why is the answer so dangerous to peace in the Middle East?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
When what begins as a simple breaking and entering turns into a mystery of biblical proportions, Longley's (The Worlock Archive) Det. Insp. Robert Peele of London's Metropolitan Police Department must travel the world to find answers in this overly detailed, somewhat confusing thriller, the debut installment of a new series. The first indication Robbie has that things are going awry in his life and career comes when certain government agencies begin asking for favors and pulling some strings in his latest case. As questions about the origins of the world's major religions come into play, things only get murkier in what turns out to be a global anthropological chess game with deadly consequences. Written as a first-person account filled with technical detail, the detective inspector's investigation follows a convoluted, often unintentionally humorous path filled with convenient happy accidents. The information-laden narrative detracts from the storytelling, leaving a novel with all the heart of a written report.