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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About the Author

PROFESSOR BILL NAPIER is a career scientist, trained in Scotland, with a specialty in astronomy. He has long been fascinated by rumors of a 16th Century conspiracy to mix astronomy, history, and religion in a plot that would have changed the world forever. The mysterious icon at the center of Splintered Icon the key to that conspiracy, inspired in part by John Dee, the Queen's astronomer. Dee was also a shadowy spy operating under the code name 007. Bill Napier lives in Ireland with his wife.

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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Edition details

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