Splintered Icon - Softcover

Napier, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312936680 ISBN 13: 9780312936686

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 2005

Synopsis

Hired to appraise a four-hundred-year-old journal, supposedly by the cabin boy aboard Sir Walter Raleigh's 1585 expedition, antiquarian bookseller Harry Blake soon finds that the enigmatic volume is much more, when his client is murdered and he discovers that it could hold the key to a missing holy relic, lost for more than a millennium. Original.

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Review:

"Incredible...extraordinary...a really terrific novel."
--Jeff Long, New York Times bestselling author of The Descent
"Intriguing and imaginative. An inventive piece of storytelling."
--Steve Berry, National Bestselling Author of The Amber Room
"Napier nimbly twists two separate tales into a thrilling novel of exploration, discovery, and ultimately survival. Fans of Dan Brown take note, this is a one sitting book."
--Jack DuBrul, USA Today bestselling author of The Medusa Stone
"Outrageously exciting. A cunningly devised tale."-Literary Review
"A gripping read."-Scotsman
"A nail-biting page-turner."-Edinburgh Times
"A fascinating primer on code-breaking and the importance of calendars in human history."
-Irish Independent
"Extraordinary."--Jeff Long "Intriguing."--Steve Berry "Fans of Dan Brown take note."--Jack Du Brul

"Extraordinary."--Jeff Long "Intriguing."--Steve Berry "Fans of Dan Brown take note."--Jack Du Brul

Extraordinary. "Jeff Long"

Intriguing. "Steve Berry"

Fans of Dan Brown take note. "Jack Du Brul""

"Extraordinary." --Jeff Long

"Intriguing." --Steve Berry

"Fans of Dan Brown take note." --Jack Du Brul

From the Back Cover:

One of the most captivating books you will ever read, Bill Napier's debut novel Splintered Icon will shatter your illusions with its high stakes plot, fascinating characters, and unrelenting suspense...

ITS HISTORY IS UNTOLD.

Antiquarian bookseller Harry Blake is hired to appraise a four-hundred-year-old journal bequeathed to a wealthy landowner. At first, it appears to be only the curiously coded diary of a young cabin boy aboard Sir Walter Raleigh's celebrated 1585 Elizabethan expedition. But when Harry's client is murdered and his own life is threatened, he realizes that he's opened

the door to a mystery worth killing for...

ITS MYSTERIES ARE INCREDIBLE.

Enlisting the aide of eminent map dealer Zola Kahn, Harry uncovers something else. Buried in the cryptic writings are puzzling references to a "secret purpose", terrified revelations of murder at sea, and an astonishing disclosure: the location of an invaluable holy relic thought lost for more than a thousand years.

ITS REVELATIONS ARE LIFE AND DEATH.

Harry and Zola follow a trail that leads them to an ancient and dangerous secret conspiracy still unraveling after centuries, and possessing the unimaginable power to literally change history-and splinter it forever.

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About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0312936680
• ISBN 13: 9780312936686
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 360