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In Israel, a man clutching a
backpack searches desperately for a boat. In Minnesota, Virgil Flowers
gets a message from Lucas Davenport: You’re about to get a visitor. It’s
an Israeli cop, and she’s chasing a man who’s smuggled out an
extraordinary relic — an ancient inscribed stone revealing startling
details about the man known as King Solomon.
“Wait a minute,” laughs Virgil. “Is this one of those mystical
movie-plot deals? The secret artifact, the blockbuster revelation, the
teams of murderous bad guys? Should I be boning up on my Bible verses?”
He looks at the investigator. She’s not laughing.
As it turns out, there are very bad men chasing the relic, and they
don’t care who’s in the way or what they have to do to get it. “They’re
crazies,” she says.
“What kind of crazies?”
“Palestinian crazies, Syrian crazies, Egyptian crazies, maybe a
couple of Israeli crazies. Turks. Some Americans, too, I suppose. Maybe
the Pope.”
Perhaps Virgil should start praying
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