The Blood Gospel
The Order of the Sanguines Series
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4.1 • 83 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
In his first-ever collaboration, New York Times bestselling author James Rollins combines his skill for cutting-edge science and historical mystery with award-winning novelist Rebecca Cantrell’s talent for haunting suspense and sensual atmosphere in a gothic tale about an ancient order and the hunt for a miraculous book known only as . . . The Blood Gospel
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This ponderous collaboration between Rollins (Bloodline) and Cantrell (A City of Broken Glass) opens with an arresting prologue set in first-century Israel. As the Jewish defenders of Masada prepare for their mass suicide, their leader, Eleazar, ritually sacrifices a young girl in a cave below the mountain fortress. Flash forward to the present, when a cataclysmic explosion destroys Masada, leaving as sole survivor a boy whose cancer was cured by the toxic smoke that emanated from below the mountain. At the request of the Israeli government, archeologist Erin Granger joins forces with Sgt. Jordan Stone, an American Army Ranger, to find out what caused the catastrophe. Add a peculiar Catholic priest and a lost gospel to the attractive male-female team and its quest for the truth, and you have yet another religious thriller with a gimmick that fails to match that of The Da Vinci Code.
Customer Reviews
Good
Certainly not as good as Map of Bones but nonetheless still very good. If you like James Rollins then you should enjoy this book!
Disappointed
Very disappointed with this book. I love James Rollins books but this one was not the quality that he usually writes. I will be very careful what books I buy from now on. I can honestly write that this is the first book I've read of his I did not enjoy and I've read them all.
Blood Gospel
The authors had me captivated from the first page. Incredible twists and turns that kept me wanting more.....I want more. Bring on the next in the series.