THE EXPLOSIVE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING THRILLER... When Jack Bernstein’s prodigal daughter Lara is killed as a result of the bombing of Flight 320, the chess grandmaster is told that it was simply a terrorist act and that none of the passengers had been specifically targeted. It is a lie. Having been summoned via a strangely coded message to a meeting with a man referring to himself only as ‘Simon’, Jack is made aware that his daughter had been leaving a lot more than her new life behind. She had also been leaving a secret… one that had been building for centuries and one which a global group of corporations will stop at nothing to protect. It soon becomes apparent that Lara Bernstein’s life and death had been planned in detail. She was chosen to become part of an ever-expanding group and her selection was a direct result of her father’s company’s near-perfection of the thing they need - true artificial intelligence - computer systems capable of cracking the most complex codal system known to man. Slowly, Jack Bernstein is being drawn into a global game of chess, one in which he has been an unwitting pawn for over a decade. To keep him in the game they have already killed his wife and now his daughter. When the game is over, they will kill a whole lot more unless Jack can find the one thing he is reluctant to believe exists…

The Times Top 5 Thriller Novel of 2011. Past, present and future collide head on in a unique and twisting thriller. A naked male, dead in an alleyway with bullets that don’t make sense. A note, written in 13th Century Latin secreted about his person along with the name and room number of an autistic mental patient. Fingerprints burned away and tattoos completely removed. Of all the possible duties, the last task LAPD detective Nick Lambert wanted was the drive to Oakdene to interview the girl. It gets much worse when he discovers that as well as being autistic, she’s also mute. But when an off-hand comment from the nurse piques Nick’s attention, he can’t help but follow the lead. What he finds will turn his entire world - his entire existence - upside down. Clues to the location of valuable stone tablets, the only tablets described in Exodus as being ‘written by the hand of God’. These are not the Ten Commandments… these are ALL the commandments, and Nick suddenly finds himself at the heart of a centuries old struggle to find, and hide, the kind of extremely valuable information that mankind was never meant to possess. It is only when Nick realises that he was a key player in the game long before it started, and that he will be a key player long after it is over, will he discover the true importance of those around him. Nick has inadvertently stumbled into the most important human being who has ever lived. One who will not only change the world once, but will do it over and over again. He will discover many things about the girl. What she has to hide is the most important thing of all.

Constuit autour d'un incroyable secret protégé par les Templiers et les Cathares, le nouveau thriller d'Adrian Dawson! 1645, Manningtree. La chasse aux sorcières menée par le Grand Inquisiteur Matthew Hopkins fait rage dans cette petite bourgade où la paranoïa s'est installée. Rachel, une mystérieuse jeune femme mutique sortie d'un couvent du sud de la France, est condamnée et pendue. Son corps est jeté dans un puits. Sur sa dépouille, ne subsiste qu'un crucifix de bois... 2043, Los Angeles. Peter Strauss, un scientifique, pleure sa petite amie Rachel, décédée dans l'explosion d'un laboratoire du sud de la France. Bientôt, il devient la cible de tueurs auxquels il échappe grâce à d'étranges messages reçus sur son téléphone portable, qui le conduisent jusqu'à la cabane de Victoria, une vieille femme vivant recluse parmi des séquoias géants. Elle lui affirme qu'elle l'attendait, qu'elle sait tout de lui, et ce qu'elle va révéler va faire chanceler son existence.