Donated by Ithaca books when they went out of business.

From Publishers Weekly
In this suspenseful Da Vinci Code knockoff from British author Napier (Nemesis), Harry Blake, an antiquarian book dealer specializing in old maps and manuscripts, agrees to help Sir Toby Tebbit translate a 400-year-old journal, written in code, that Sir Toby has inherited from a heretofore unknown relative in Jamaica. The manuscript chronicles the adventures of a young cabin boy, James Ogilvie, who traveled to the Americas as part of a secret mission for the Elizabethan crown. When a mysterious woman approaches Blake about buying the journal, he refuses to sell. Later, Blake returns to the Tebbit household to discover that Sir Toby has been brutally murdered. Teaming up with rival historian Zola Kahn and Sir Toby's daughter, Debbie, the trio soon join a race to determine the meaning behind Ogilvie's encrypted text. A trail reaching as far back as the Crusades leads toward a holy relic that could be worth millions — or could be the key to a worldwide terrorist plot. Deftly mixing history, science and fiction, Napier keeps the action escalating toward a satisfying climax.

Copyright date: 2003.

RELEASE NOTES:

Your amazing box made it here yesterday. Thanks so very much! This will help fuel the next five or six trips to the OBCZ!

I hadn't planned on reading this. However, over the weekend I found myself in a situation with no book, and the choice of watching a video game played that was giving me a severe headache. So, since I had thrown this into my bag for possible releasing if we had gone out to eat, I pulled it out and started it.

I'm really glad that I did. This book had just enough thrilling "will they find the clues before the bad guys?" moments, and a nice mix of historical and modern day story lines to the plot.

I am fond of this type of book. While it's not the world's greatest literature, it gave me a few good days read on my commute home

RELEASE NOTES:

Left on one of the tables with the extra forms and such.