The Moses Expedition

A Novel

Juan Gómez-Jurado, A. V. Lebron, translator

After fifty years in hiding, the Nazi war criminal known as the Butcher of Spiegelgrund has finally been tracked down by Father Anthony Fowler, a CIA operative and a member of the Vatican’s secret service. He wants something from the Butcher—a candle covered in filigree gold that was stolen from a Jewish family many years before.

But it isn’t the gold Fowler is after. As Fowler holds a flame to the wax, the missing fragment of an ancient map that uncovers the location of the Ten Commandments given to …

But it isn’t the gold Fowler is after. As Fowler holds a flame to the wax, the missing fragment of an ancient map that uncovers the location of the Ten Commandments given to Moses is revealed. Soon Fowler is involved in an expedition to Jordan set up by a reclusive billionaire. But there is a traitor in the group who has ties to terrorist organizations back in the United States, and who is patiently awaiting the moment to strike.

From wartime Vienna to terrorist cells in New York and a lost valley in Jordan, The Moses Expedition is a thrilling read about a quest for power and the secrets of an ancient world.

1 edition

Hardcover, 384 pages

English, translated from Spanish language

Published May 14, 2010 by Atria Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-4165-9064-4
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OCLC Number:: 417445621

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Subjects

Ark of the Covenant -- Fiction
Journalists -- Fiction
Jordan -- Fiction

Reviews

Jim Fulner reviewed The Moses Expedition by Juan Gómez-Jurado

Who's trying to stop the recovery of the ark at all costs?

4.5 stars

I really liked this book. I may have been most impressed with the drawings throughout the book. I don't see any illustrator credited so I can only assume Gómez-Jurado did so himself. I'm not sure if the story was quite as good as the first one, but that's only because God's Spy was so good itself. Our friend Fr. Fowler gets drawn into another adventure more apprehensively than his last, and it turns out much worse than even he expected. The story is told well with several different perspectives taken, from Fr. Fowler, from the haphazard reporter, from a millionaire back in the States, radicalized muslim American teens, and along the way they meet a crazy eccentric, and there is more religion than you can shake a stick at.

It certainly is a product of its time with its 2000s Islamic terrorist bent, but even from a 2020s liberal …

It certainly is a product of its time with its 2000s Islamic terrorist bent, but even from a 2020s liberal bent, it isn't' taken too far for the sake of literature.

Highly recommend, and you'll get a long fine without having read the first one, but I suggest that one too. I listened to that on audio book, and after seeing this one in print, I want to buy a copy of that to see what pictures I missed on CD.