David Gibbins – författare

Det här är den tredje boken av författaren till Atlantis och Heligt guld. Huvudpersonerma är desamma, det vill säga Jack Howard, Costas Kazantzakis, Maria di Montijo, Maurice Hiebermeyer och de övriga. Jack och Costas dyker utanför Siciliens ostkust för att hitta vraket efter skeppet som förde aposteln Paulus på hans sista resa … den som slutade med att han togs till Rom och avrättades av Nero. Samtidigt gräver Hiebermeyer och Maria vid Villa di Papyri i Herculaneum och stöter då på ett hemligt rum när de följer en gång som tidigare hållits avspärrad på grund av rasrisk. De kallar till sig Jack och Costas och tillsammans tar de sig in i det hemliga rummet där de dels hittar ett förkolnat lik och dels stöter på behållare med papyrusrullar. Det förkolnade liket tillhör en frigiven slav som levt tillsammans med Claudius under hans sista år. Och i papyrusrullarna finns uppgifter om att Claudius har sammanträffat med Jesus. Mötet ska ha ägt rum år 23 och vid det tillfället samtalar Claudius och Jesus på tu man hand och då får Claudius texten till "Det sista evangeliet". I Vatikanen har man med oro följt utgrävningarna och det finns sedan länge ett hemligt consilium (en parallell till felag-brödraskapet i Heligt guld) vars uppgift är att skydda kyrkan mot allt som kan hota dess maktställning. Och det är just folk från detta consilium som hela tiden finns i bakgrunden. När fynden för Jack och de andra till olika platser - resterna efter romartidens Londonium i dagen finanskvarter, Gettymuseet i Kalifornien med kopian av Villa di Papyri och slutligen Den heliga gravens kyrka i Jerusalem - blir de alltmer övertygade om att någon vill sätta stopp för deras verksamhet. Då de i Den heliga gravens kyrka hittar dokumentet i en förseglad behållare blir de övermannade av ledaren för Vatikanens consilium och hans medhjälpare. Dessa är fast beslutna att röja Jack och de andra ur vägen bara för att bevara hemligheten med "Det sista evangeliet".

FANS OF DAN BROWN AND CLIVE CUSSLER WILL BE UNABLE TO RESIST THIS THRILLING NEW JACK HOWARD ACTION ADVENTURE FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.''What do you get if you cross Indiana Jones with Dan Brown? Answer: David Gibbins'' MIRROR''[The] Da Vinci Code of the deep sea'' DAILY EXPRESSGreece, 1876. Renowned archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann unearths the tomb of legendary King Agamemnon and makes a mind-blowing discovery. Determined to keep it secret until the time is right, he dies before it can be revealed to the world.Germany, 1945. The liberation of a concentration camp reveals clues to the lost antiquities stolen by the Nazis. But the operation is covered up after a horrific secret surfaces.Northern Aegean, present day. Jack Howard, head of the International Maritime University, and his team discover the wreckage of the legendary Greek fleet from the Trojan War, sending shockwaves around the world. But the biggest surprise is yet to come, for Jack is on the trail not only of Agamemnon, but of Schliemann''s true discovery-and a mystery so explosive that it leads to the kidnapping of Jack''s daughter and a confrontation with a new and evil foe.

FANS OF DAN BROWN AND CLIVE CUSSLER WILL BE UNABLE TO RESIST THIS THRILLING NEW JACK HOWARD ACTION ADVENTURE FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.''What do you get if you cross Indiana Jones with Dan Brown? Answer: David Gibbins'' MIRROR''[The] Da Vinci Code of the deep sea'' DAILY EXPRESS1351 BC: Akhenaten the Sun-Pharaoh rules supreme in Egypt...until the day he casts off his crown and mysteriously disappears into the desert, his legacy seemingly swallowed up by the remote sands beneath the Great Pyramids of Giza. AD 1884: A British soldier serving in the Sudan stumbles upon an incredible discovery - a submerged temple containing evidence of a terrifying religion whose god was fed by human sacrifice. The soldier is on a mission to reach General Gordon before Khartoum falls. But he hides a secret of his own. Present day: Jack Howard and his team are excavating one of the most amazing underwater sites they have ever encountered, but dark forces are watching to see what they will find. Diving into the Nile, they enter a world three thousand years back in history, inhabited by a people who have sworn to guard the greatest secret of all time...

Fans of Dan Brown and Clive Cussler will be unable to resist this thrilling new Jack Howard action adventure from Sunday Times bestseller David Gibbins. Underwater archaeologist Jack Howard is back with a dangerous mission to uncover a shocking secret which could rewrite history . . .In 1890, a British soldier emerges from the depths of a Cairo sewer. He claims to have been trapped for years in an ancient underground complex, and swears that he stumbled upon an incredible collection of gold, treasure, and thousands upon thousands of jars filled with papyri. Dismissed as a madman who has lost his mind in the desert, his story was lost to the world. Until now . . .When a colleague of Jack Howard''s stumbles across the soldier''s story, the mention of a ''blinding shaft of light'' captures Jack''s attention and resurrects the forgotten ramblings. With the political situation in Egypt at boiling point, Jack and his team risk everything in a treacherous archaeological expedition to find the truth. Their mission will take them across the globe, down to the darkest depths of the Red Sea, and back through Egyptian history to the bloody reign of Akhenaten, the Sun-Pharaoh - and keeper of a devastating secret.

FANS OF DAN BROWN AND CLIVE CUSSLER WILL BE UNABLE TO RESIST THIS THRILLING NEW JACK HOWARD ACTION ADVENTURE FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.''What do you get if you cross Indiana Jones with Dan Brown? Answer: David Gibbins'' MIRROR''[The] Da Vinci Code of the deep sea'' DAILY EXPRESSTwo ancient cultures, a lost treasure from the distant past: what powerful secrets does it conceal-and how far will some go to possess them?The trail starts in the Roman ruins and leads to a shipwreck off the coast of Egypt. Soon the world''s top marine archaeologist, Jack Howard, and his team of scientific experts and ex-Special Forces adventurers are pushing their way through the mysterious jungles of India, following in the footsteps of a legendary band of missing Roman legionnaires. Meanwhile, at a remote lake in Kyrgyzstan, a beautiful woman has found evidence of a secret knowledge that has cost the lives of countless seekers through the centuries. And what Jack uncovers will lead him to dig not only into the ancient past but into his own family history. For over a century earlier his great-great-grandfather returned from an archaeological expedition in India forever traumatized by what he''d experienced. And in order to lay the past to rest, Jack will have to unearth an artifact that might have been better left buried-and with it a power that some of history''s most ruthless tyrants have sought to rule the world...

From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human history told through the archaeological discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time.The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII's the Mary Rose. Captain John Franklin's doomed HMS Terror. The SS Gairsoppa, destroyed by a Nazi U-boat in the Atlantic during World War II.Since we first set sail on the open sea, ships and their wrecks have been an inevitable part of human history. Archaeologists have made spectacular discoveries excavating these sunken ships, their protective underwater cocoon keeping evidence of past civilizations preserved. Now, for the first time, world renowned maritime archeologist David Gibbins ties together the stories of some of the most significant shipwrecks in time to form a single overarching narrative of world history.A History of the World in 12 Shipwrecks is not just the story of those ships, the people who sailed on them, and the cargo and treasure they carried, but also the story of the spread of people, religion, and ideas around the world; it is a story of colonialism, migration, and the indominable human spirit that continues today. From the glittering Bronze Age, to the world of Caesar's Rome, through the era of the Vikings, to the exploration of the Arctic, Gibbins uses shipwrecks to tell all.Drawing on decades of experience excavating shipwrecks around the world, Gibbins reveals the riches beneath the waves and shows us how the treasures found there can be a porthole to the past that tell a new story about the world and its underwater secrets.