The Last Testament - Rilegato

Bourne, Sam

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ISBN 10: 0061470864 ISBN 13: 9780061470868

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2009

Riassunto

Several years after a teenage boy disappears with an ancient clay tablet from Baghdad's Museum of Antiquities, the shooting of a man at a historic government peace accord prompts negotiator Maggie Costello to investigate a series of deaths at West Bank Jewish settlements and Palestinian refugee camps. 50,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Sam Bourne is the literary pseudonym of Jonathan Freedland, an award-winning British journalist and broadcaster. He is a weekly columnist for the Guardian (UK), having served as that paper’s Washington correspondent. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek, and the New Republic. He is a regular contributor to the Jewish Chronicle (UK) and presents BBC Radio 4’s contemporary history series The Long View.

Bourne is the author of the New York Times and number one UK bestseller The Righteous Men, which has been translated into twenty-eight languages, and The Last Testament. He has also written two nonfiction works, Jacob’s Gift and Bring Home the Revolution. He lives in London with his wife and two children.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

April 2003: an Iraqi boy loots an ancient clay tablet from a long-forgotten vault in the Baghdad Museum of Antiquities.

Years later, at a rally for the signing of a historic deal between Israel and the Palestinians, a suspected assassin pushes through the crowd toward the Israeli prime minister. Bodyguards shoot the man dead. But in his hand there is no gun—only a blood-stained note.

A series of seemingly random revenge killings follows and tensions boil over. Washington calls in star peace-negotiator Maggie Costello. With her relationship in trouble and old sins to atone for, Maggie finds herself in an impossible situation, especially when she discovers the murders are not random. Someone is killing archaeologists and historians—those who know the buried secrets of the ancient past.

Menaced on all sides by violent extremists, Costello is plunged into a mystery rooted in the last unsolved riddle of the Bible. The truth could end hostilities—or spark the war to end all wars.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061470864
• ISBN 13: 9780061470868
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 439