Shattered Icon
By (Author) Bill Napier
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Book Publishing
2nd July 2003
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Thriller / suspense fiction
Adventure / action fiction
823.914
288
Width 152mm, Height 23mm, Spine 234mm
379g
As an antique map dealer in a small English town, Harry Blake appreciates the quiet life. But when a local landowner asks him to value a 400 year old journal and twelve hours later he is brutally murdered, Harry's peace of mind is shattered. What does the dusty journal contain that is a matter of life or death Why is someone prepared to pay Harry a fortune to steal it He turns to marine historian Zola Khan to uncover the mysteries. The trail of the journal leads him into a world of deadly Elizabethan conspiracies, and the thread of history takes him through a thousand years of religious intrigue back to the blood-soaked Crusades. And he finally learns that at stake are millions of dollars and a plan to trigger nothing less than war...
Bill Napier is an astronomer at Armagh Observatory and an honorary professor at Cardiff University. He lives in Ireland with his wife.