Author

Publication

1991 - Warner Books, New York, NY, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

113,000 words, Guess

Page Count

452 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPR9199.3.M65 C65 1991
  • LCCPR9199.3.M65C65 1991

Description

In 1244, at the infamous fortress of Montségur in southwestern France, Christian Inquisitors massacred the last vestige of a heresy known as Mithraism, once the dominant religion of the Roman Empire. But was the heresy in fact destroyed? In today’s New York City, reporter Tess Drake discovers a mysterious altar in the apartment of a friend whose charred body was discovered in a nearby park. The altar (a version of it exists in the British Museum) depicts a man astride a bull, plunging a knife into its neck while a dog, a scorpion, and a snake drink the blood. The meaning of that altar propels Tess on a furious hunt for the truth about what happened to her friend, a labyrinth of intrigue and danger that leads to the highest levels of power as well as to the depths of a secret cave in Spain.

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Other Editions

  • The covenant of the flameWarner Books1991-01-01

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