The Magdalene Cipher
Author: Hougan, Jim
ISBN: 9780099498476
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Mar 2006
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
A gripping, page-turning novel in which a CIA man goes on the run from a sinister cabal, intent on maintaining the secret identity of the last survivor of the line of Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ. By the co-author of the bestseller (250,000 sold in Arrow) The Genesis Code.
A stunning international thriller of psychology and conspiracy, espionage and prophecy, history and suspense.
After someone he has under surveillance is slaughtered - literally - CIA agent Jack Dunphy is ordered to leave London immediately and return to the US, where he is dumped into a tedious desk job that seems calculated to make him quit. Determined to learn why, Dunphy uses all his CIA tradecraft on the agency that has turned against him - and discovers the fragments of a story that seems too wild to be true, providing him with evidence of a conspiracy that goes back to the time of Christ, a conspiracy so vast and deep and old that the CIA itself is but a cover for it.
Embroiled in a plot far more elaborate than he ever could have imagined, with players too powerful and consequences too deadly, Dunphy must uncover the shocking truth - or die trying...
ISBN: 9780099498476
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Mar 2006
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
A gripping, page-turning novel in which a CIA man goes on the run from a sinister cabal, intent on maintaining the secret identity of the last survivor of the line of Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ. By the co-author of the bestseller (250,000 sold in Arrow) The Genesis Code.
A stunning international thriller of psychology and conspiracy, espionage and prophecy, history and suspense.
After someone he has under surveillance is slaughtered - literally - CIA agent Jack Dunphy is ordered to leave London immediately and return to the US, where he is dumped into a tedious desk job that seems calculated to make him quit. Determined to learn why, Dunphy uses all his CIA tradecraft on the agency that has turned against him - and discovers the fragments of a story that seems too wild to be true, providing him with evidence of a conspiracy that goes back to the time of Christ, a conspiracy so vast and deep and old that the CIA itself is but a cover for it.
Embroiled in a plot far more elaborate than he ever could have imagined, with players too powerful and consequences too deadly, Dunphy must uncover the shocking truth - or die trying...
