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020 _a9781784080433 (paperback)
020 _a1784080438 (paperback)
035 _a(OCoLC)889639390
035 _a(AuCNLKIN)000053337663
035 _a(OCoLC)ocn889639390
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082 0 4 _a813/.6
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100 _aLustbader, Eric,
_eauthor.
_9258
_d1946-
_qEric Van Lustbader
245 1 0 _aThe testament /
_cEric Van Lustbader.
300 _a480 pages ;
_c23 cm.
520 _aAfter Braverman "Bravo" Shaw's father is tragically killed in an accident, his uneventful life as a risk management consultant is quickly turned upside down. Bravo's dad, it turns out, is a high-ranking member of the Order of Gnostic Observatines, a secret sect of monks believed to be long extinct. For centuries, the Order has diligently guarded civilization-altering artifacts (including the Secret Gospel According to Mark, which discredits Jesus' divinity, and the Quintessence, the fabled fifth element that is rumored to have the power to raise the dead and bestow immortality) from an opposing sect bent on crushing the Order and exploiting its secrets. Bravo's father has concealed the cache, and with its location hidden in numerous cryptograms the race is on -- and so is the countdown to Armageddon.
650 0 _aMedievalists
_vFiction.
650 0 _aCryptographers
_vFiction.
_933474
650 0 _aSecret societies
_vFiction.
_95918
650 0 _aMedievalists
_vFiction.
655 0 _aSuspense fiction.
_996
655 0 _aSuspense fiction.
_996
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