Rumors have spread about a mysterious, ancient box said to have been passed down through several generations of an elderly woman living in Jerusalem who supposedly used the box, or perhaps its contents, to heal a friend on her death bed.
Rumors also claim the box was made by Jesus Christ when he was a young apprentice carpenter more than two millennia ago. News that something made by the very hands of Christ might still exist in the world and could possibly have miraculous properties fuels rumors to a frenzy.
When the Jerusalem Police refuse to dispatch an officer to look into threats made against the woman by a low level Israeli antiquities bureaucrat who claims she stole it from a museum lockup decades earlier, her son, an NYPD detective-turned-attorney, flies to Israel to protect his mother from powers amassing against her, and to get her and the old wooden box to safety.
All the while, a new romance between him and his co-counsel, a smart young lawyer a decade younger, grows—and then shatters when he discovers she's not entirely who she says she is.
The increasing furor surrounding the box tests his determination not to allow incidents in his past to crash him headlong back to the man he once was: a former cop willing to break the law to protect the innocent…and wreak havoc on the guilty.
Rumors have spread about a mysterious, ancient box said to have been passed down through several generations of an elderly woman living in Jerusalem who supposedly used the box, or perhaps its contents, to heal a friend on her death bed.
Rumors also claim the box was made by Jesus Christ when he was a young apprentice carpenter more than two millennia ago. News that something made by the very hands of Christ might still exist in the world and could possibly have miraculous properties fuels rumors to a frenzy.
When the Jerusalem Police refuse to dispatch an officer to look into threats made against the woman by a low level Israeli antiquities bureaucrat who claims she stole it from a museum lockup decades earlier, her son, an NYPD detective-turned-attorney, flies to Israel to protect his mother from powers amassing against her, and to get her and the old wooden box to safety.
All the while, a new romance between him and his co-counsel, a smart young lawyer a decade younger, grows—and then shatters when he discovers she's not entirely who she says she is.
The increasing furor surrounding the box tests his determination not to allow incidents in his past to crash him headlong back to the man he once was: a former cop willing to break the law to protect the innocent…and wreak havoc on the guilty.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780970153180 |
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| Publisher: | McCall Books |
| Publication date: | 11/01/2020 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d) |