By James Becker
ISBN-10: 1409084361
ISBN-13: 9781409084365
Within the bestselling culture of The Shakespeare Secret, this mystery can provide all of it – high-speed chases, codes, biblical secrets and techniques and a gaggle of all too glossy terrorists – properly packaged in a pacey narrative.
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Just look at the condition of those stalls,' he'd said. 'A British health inspector would have a fit if he saw them. ' Margaret had been tempted to point out that everybody they'd seen looked notably healthy on their diet of local food, prepared without the 'benefit' of flavourings, colourings, preservatives and all the other assorted chemical compounds that seemed increasingly essential in the British diet, but bit her lip. So they had, predictably enough, eaten every meal in their hotel since they'd arrived in the city.
They were so radical, in fact, that they now numbered even the Zealots themselves, as well as almost everyone else in Judea, amongst their enemies. For over two years they'd used the hilltop fortress as a base for raiding both Roman and Jewish settlements throughout the country. The previous year, Lucius Flavius Silva, the Roman governor of Judea, had finally lost patience with the Sicarii and attacked Masada with the Fretensis legion – some five thousand battle-hardened soldiers. But Masada was a tough nut to crack, and all the Romans' attempts to breach its defences had failed.
Immediately the captive began shaking his head, sheer naked terror in his eyes. 'No, no,' he shouted, struggling violently. 'It was only a clay tablet. I'll pay you. ' 'This is nothing to do with money, you fool, and it wasn't only a clay tablet. ' The tall man made another gesture and one of his men roughly ripped the captive's clothing aside to expose his chest, then shoved a piece of cloth into the man's mouth and tied it behind his head as a gag. They held him firmly against the boulder, arms outstretched, his writhing and twisting achieving nothing.