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Sign of the cross

Title:

Sign of the cross

Author:

Cooper, Glenn, 1953- author.

ISBN:

9780727887634

9781847518866

Physical Description:

280 pages ; 23 cm.

Series:

Cal Donovan ;

Corporate Subject:

Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Fiction.

Harvard University -- Professional staff -- Fiction.

Subject Term:

College teachers -- Fiction.

Kidnapping -- Fiction.

Secret societies -- Fiction.

Stigmatization -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Vatican City -- Fiction.

Genre:

Christian fiction.

Summary:

Responding to an urgent summons from the Vatican, Harvard professor of religion and archaeology, Cal Donovan, flies to Italy to interview a young priest who has developed the stigmata of the crucifixion. Stunned to discover that the priest's condition may be genuine, Cal determines to uncover the cause of the mysterious wounds. But Cal is not the only one. When Giovanni is kidnapped from his church at dead of night, Cal comes to realize that the priest holds the key to an earth-shattering secret: a secret which a shadowy nationalist organization is desperate to control. Teaming up with Giovanni's sister Irene, Cal must unravel the mystery and track down Giovanni in a perilous race against the clock ... before an apocalyptic catastrophe is unleashed. --

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Introducing Harvard professor Cal Donovan in the first of an intriguing new series of religious conspiracy thrillers.

Responding to an urgent summons from the Vatican, Harvard professor of religion and archaeology, Cal Donovan, flies to Italy to interview a young priest who has developed the stigmata of the crucifixion. Stunned to discover that the priest's condition may be genuine, Cal determines to uncover the cause of the mysterious wounds.

But Cal is not the only one. When Giovanni is kidnapped from his church at dead of night, Cal comes to realize that the priest holds the key to an earth-shattering secret: a secret which a shadowy nationalist organization is desperate to control. Teaming up with Giovanni's sister Irene, Cal must unravel the mystery and track down Giovanni in a perilous race against the clock ... before an apocalyptic catastrophe is unleashed.

Author Notes

Glenn Cooper graduated with a degree in archaeology from Harvard and was formerly the Chairman and CEO of a biotechnology company in Massachusetts. His previous thrillers, including the bestselling Library of the Dead trilogy, have sold six million copies in more than thirty languages worldwide.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

This derivative series launch from Cooper (Near Death) features yet another two-fisted academic on the trail of a religious relic with the power to change history. Cal Donovan, a Harvard Divinity School professor of religious history and archeology who's known in the boxing ring as "The Reaper," is approached by his Boston friend Cardinal Da Silva with a request from the pope. The pontiff, impressed with Cal's book Holy Wounds: A History of Stigmata from the Middle Ages to the Present, wants Cal to investigate a current claim that a young Italian priest, Giovanni Berardino, has such wounds on his wrists. Cal travels to Italy, where he examines the priest, who doesn't appear to be a fraud. Meanwhile, Lambret Schneider, the leader of a neo-Nazi group whose members call themselves the Knights of Longinus, has designs on the Holy Lance, the weapon used by a Roman centurion to stab Jesus, as well as on Berardino. Even Dan Brown devotees are likely to consider this old hat. (May) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

Cooper, author of the Will Piper and John Camp Down series, introduces a new run of religious-conspiracy thrillers featuring Cal Donovan, Harvard professor of religion and archaeology. After Donovan is summoned to the Vatican to investigate the case of a young priest who has seemingly developed the stigmata of the crucifixion, his inquiry intensifies when Father Giovanni is kidnapped. Donovan and Giovanni's sister, Irene, race against the clock to rescue Gio and unravel a mystery that reaches back to antiquity and involves Nazi treasure hunters and a contemporary political cataclysm. Cooper's intelligent, heart-pounding homage to Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and The Da Vinci Code (2003) will appeal to fans of action, thriller, and conspiracy genres.--Flanagan, Margaret Copyright 2018 Booklist

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