Nonfiction
Large Type
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©2021
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557 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 22 cm
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Persons in their order of appearance -- The key -- Part one: The cipher -- Part two: Underground -- Part three: The king in copper -- Part four: Raiders -- Part five: A black star
"This book tells the untold story of Monty Parker, a British rogue nobleman who headed a secret expedition to find the fabled Ark of the Covenant. In 1908, Monty is approached by a scholar named Valter Juvelius who claims to have discovered a secret code in the Bible that reveals the location of the Ark. Monty assembles a group of adventurers to engage in a secret excavation just outside Jerusalem. Using records from the original expedition and several newly translated sources, True Raiders is the first retelling of this group's adventures"--