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By George Rogerson

it truly is twenty-five years due to the fact Jack Rikert, hero of The Circle: One Man's Odyssey, looted a precious artifact from the tomb of his Indian ancestor, and now he's battling made up our minds adversaries for the ownership of an old crucifix as soon as worn through Pope Clement XIV. Etched at the move is the foremost to the positioning of early writings not easy Christian canon.

Rikert seeks the crucifix, as an essential hyperlink to his local American history, ignorant of its energy to alter the face of Christendom or its capability for final sanction from these pledged to retains its secret...ominous Protectors of the religion, whose sworn accountability is to suppress writings at odds with the divinely encouraged be aware of God.

Narrowly surviving the flooded dungeon of Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, he needs to decide to abandon his quest or proceed, the place ever-shifting loyalties create an atmosphere of risky uncertainty, forcing him to protect opposed to treachery from enemy and friend.

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