The Moses Expedition by Juan Gomez-Jurado

I bought this book without knowing anything about the book or the author. I purchased this book in a MPH book sale , as i was checking other books, this book popped up . I took it without reading anything i put it in my basket. Some books just come to us without warning! I did not regret buying this book.

I started the book on Friday evening and finished the book on Saturday midnight , by the way  i did not read the book day time. The story is about the a group of 23 men and women to find "Ark of The Covenant" believed to be given to Moses by God.The story starts in Nazi Germany and passes through Spain,Vatican and Jordan. The  Catholic Priest Anthony Fowler follows Nazi doctor many years and find him and the important object.

A little boy Raymon Kayn escapes from Nazis and immigrate to US during world war.Raymond Kayn  is a big businessman and his lifelong ambition is to find the "Ark of The Covenant".He uses all his money and power to hire professionals for the expedition .His right hand man is Russel , who is a classmate of  Kayn's son who died in 9/11 attack.

The Vatican too, in search of the "Ark of The Covenant " tie up with Kayn and send Father Anthony Fowler as a observer(of course they have a different motive for sending Fr.Fowler!).Fr.Fowler was once military chaplain and he was the one who found the half of the map.His aide is another priest,former hacker and an ISL,Fr.Albert. These priests are all part of 'Holy Alliance'- the Vatican's secret intelligence service.The two other important female characters are Andrea Otero , the Spanish reporter and doctor Harel, who is part of Mossad.These two falls in love while in expedition. The interesting part is no one knows anything about others in the group.  

The terrorism consultant and owner of Netcatch Orville Watson found some details of Huqan who is believed to be the leader of a terrorist group.He hinted this to Kayn and his assistant Russell, that made Watson a target for the terrorist.His office was attacked and the all the materials were burnt and he was under cover.Through various events Fr.Fowler came to know that someone inside the group is trying to kill one by one , after the first murder of Stowie Erling. He also came to know through Andrea that the security agents are using code words to kill one by one. Fr.Fowler has to find who is doing that. Mean while the archaeologists  in the expedition team almost reached the underground location of "Ark of the covenant". The remaining story is whether Fr.Fowler found who is Huqan and "Ark of The Covenant" ? The suspense created by each killing makes ones heart palpitating and the slowness in doing it make even interesting.

Read it for the beauty of suspense.

The author's research for this book