The Sword, the Book, and the Bone

This tale of adventure begins in the Middle East in 1920 and ends in 1990 in a mountain top monastery in Soviet Armenia. Tripp Shepard is grandson of a Middle Eastern scholar and former O.S.S. agent who leaves him three antiquities of enormous historical and spiritual importance. Among the three is a book telling the provenance of the sword and its role in history from the time of Caesar to the present. Among the episodes described is the sword's brief tenure in the hands of Ambrosius Aurelianus, the real King Arthur of fifth century Britain. Tripp must discover and ultimately deliver these treasures to their rightful home, a monastery in the mountains of Soviet Armenia in the tumultous last days of the Soviet Union.

Themes of freedom, humility and courage provide the philosophical and spiritual message of this short, exciting and intellectually vast debut novel from scholar priest Greg Jones.