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Preface

And the Lord God placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims and a flaming sword, which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

—Genesis 3:24

A unique, high-tech, high-security energy field known as “Flaming Sword” encloses the famous Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the storied site of the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden, of Solomon’s Temple, and of the Dome of the Rock, which is revered by Muslims everywhere.

Why this exceptional need for security?

Because the Temple Mount is the most dangerous place on Earth. Three great religions—Islam, Judaism, and Christianity—all claim this holy spot as their own. Despite an edgy truce among them, the slightest shift in the status quo could bring war to the whole world.

In The Day of Atonement Volume 1, a radical Pope dies brutally, and a most sacred artifact is stolen. Thrown unwillingly together, Ari Davan, an Israeli intelligence agent, and Maryse Mandelyn, an Interpol art expert plagued by a violent past, detect in these events the dim outlines of a conspiracy that threatens to destroy the holy mountain.

Independent of each other, Ari and Maryse discover a startling image on the ceiling of the Papal Chapel in Rome, a sign that leads them to the mysterious Cathedral of Chartres, where they decipher a countdown to apocalypse in the famous Labyrinth.

Then, as they leave the Cathedral, Ari notices something strange about a statue on the façade and leaves Maryse stranded there. What did he see? What does it mean? Where will it lead?

Now Maryse is left alone to make some sense out of the fragments of evidence she has collected—a pair of gold rings with an enigmatic inscription, an ancient Tarot card with the same inscription, an illogical spatter of blood on the Papal Altar, a missing DNA sample, the disappearance of a holy icon that had not been moved in a thousand years.

She doesn’t believe what the tabloids say, that “the world will end on Monday”; but she can’t shake the feeling that the menacing hour is coming around at last.

And now, The Flaming Sword, Volume 2 of The Day of Atonement…