Sinai Tapestry

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480433892

<DIV><DIV><b><i>Sinai Tapestry, </i></b><b>the brilliant first novel of the Jerusalem Quartet,is an epic alternate history of the Middle East in which the discovery of the original Bible links a disparate group of remarkable people across time and space</b></div><DIV><BR>In 1840, Plantagenet Strongbow, the twenty-ninth Duke of Dorset, seven-feet-seven-inches tall and the greatest swordsman and botanist of Victorian England, walks away from the family estate and disappears into the Sinai Desert carrying only a large magnifying glass and a portable sundial. He emerges forty years later as an Arab holy man and anthropologist, now the author of a massive study of Levantine sex&mdash;and the secret owner of the Ottoman Empire.</div><DIV><BR>Meanwhile, Skanderbeg Wallenstein has discovered the original Bible, lost on a dusty bookshelf in the monastery library. To his amazement, it defies every truth held by the three major religions. Nearly a century later, Haj Harun, an antiquities dealer who has acted as guardian of the Holy City for three thousand years, uncovers the hidden Bible.</div><DIV><i><BR>Sinai Tapestry </i>is the first volume of the Jerusalem Quartet, which continues with <i>Jerusalem Poker</i>,<i> Nile Shadows</i>,and <i>Jericho Mosaic</i>.</div><DIV></div></div>