Crucified

Meet Wyatt Rook lawyer, historian, detective...Germany: a bulldozer on a construction site uncovers the remains of a Second World War bomber and so begins a treacherous international journey from the crucifixionof Jesus at Golgotha to modern archaeological discoveries. Lawyer/historian Wyatt Rook and Liz Hannah must solve a series of whodunitsto unravel the Judas puzzle. Blocking them at every turn isthe Legionary of Christ, a crusader backed by a secret inquisition that will stop at nothing to make sure the Judas puzzle remains unsolved.

From Publishers WeeklyThe discovery more than 60 years later of the wreckage of a British bomber that crashed in Germany in 1944 triggers a hunt for connections to Christ's crucifixion, the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition in this middling religious thriller from Slade (Kamikaze). Wyatt Rook, an American writer who specializes in books and TV documentaries that dig up dirt about recent history, agrees to help a sexy young British researcher, Liz Hannah, look into the case of the crashed plane (of which her grandfather was a crew member). The complicated trail takes the pair from England to Germany, where a plot involving Churchill and a Nazi traitor called Judas began, and then to Golgotha. Meanwhile, the Vatican's Art Historian is worried (If the resurrected bomber yields a map to the Judas package, Christendom might be rocked to its two-thousand-year-old foundations). Those with an insatiable appetite for Da Vinci Codeknockoffs will be most rewarded. (Oct.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Review"Disgustingly clever, revoltingly entertaining: top-drawer" Booklist on Ghoul "Slade blends a classic murder mystery game with occult arcana to such an intricate degree" Publishers Weekly on Ripper "Slade has a reputation for conducting extensive research before beginning to write his novels, and there is much evidence of this in Swastika." Quill Quire on Swastika"