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The fifth gospel : a novel / Ian Caldwell.

ISBN: 9781451694147
ISBN: 1451694148
ISBN: 9781451694154
ISBN: 1451694156
ISBN: 9781471111020
Physical Description: 431 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Edition: First Simon &amp; Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Simon &amp; Schuster, 2015.

Caldwell, Ian, 1976- (author.).

Summary:

"In 2004, as Pope John Paul II's reign enters its twilight, a mysterious exhibit is under construction at the Vatican Museums. A week before it is scheduled to open, its curator is murdered at a clandestine meeting on the outskirts of Rome. That same night, a violent break-in rocks the home of the curator's research partner, Father Alex Andreou, a Greek Catholic priest who lives inside the Vatican with is five-year-old son. When the papal police fail to identify a suspect in either crime, Father Alex, desperate to keep his family safe, undertakes his own investigation. To find the killer he must reconstruct the dead curator's secret: what the four Christian gospels - and a little-known, true-to-life fifth gospel known as the Diatessaron - reveal about the Church's most controversial holy relic. But just as he begins to understand the truth about his friend's death and its consequences for the future of the world's two largest Christian Churches, Father Alex finds himself hunted down by someone with a vested stake in the exhibit - someone he must outwit to survive."-- Provided by publisher.