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place where God had touched the earth with his presence. The journey took them through a land at war with itself. Religious leaders, soldiers, politicians and even the man in the street were at war with his opposite number. But it was this chaos that proved to be a perfect cover for them. With resources spread so thinly who would notice their presence. It is a story of a search for facts amongst a sea of faith, it is a modern story set against a backdrop of three thousand years of tradition and it is a story of mans intolerance for his fellow man in a land that gave birth to western religion. It reads like an Indiana Jones script as action and intrigue mix with history and religion. It works on at least two levels. For those who are not particularly interested in religious history, it's a great action story set in the modern political turmoil of the Middle East in the days prior to Desert Shield. For those who want more it's a timeless quest for mans past and his place in the world, the search for his creator.

The book does take quite a while to get going as the planning to such a venture obviously took many years, but it is worth staying with as once in the desert the story fires along. As the Old Testament inspired most of their detective work, it is possible to check their sources and see how they came to the conclusions that they did, and the conclusion is fascinating. The book reads like a cross between a popular novel and a reference work, to dry for one market and to vague for the other and this is a point that lets it down. Academics will lump it into the Dan Brown corner as sensationalist and sales orientated and fans of thrillers will find it a bit lack lustre. If it is a true tale, and you will have to draw your own conclusions, then it could be a very important work and as such deserves a bigger profile. But we must remember how many people and how much money has been spent on similar ventures by those convinced of the justification of their cause. Is this just another ill-founded boys own adventure, or is this a significant addition to the study of the past. Decide for yourself.

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