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Splintered Icon
Splintered Icon
Author: Bill Napier
As an antique map dealer in a small English town, Harry Blake appreciates the quiet life. But when a local landowner asks him to value a 400-year-old journal and is then brutally murdered twelve hours later, Harry begins to suspect he's being pulled into something sinister. — What does the dusty journal contain that is a matter of life and death?...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780312354862
ISBN-10: 031235486X
Publication Date: 9/1/2005
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3 stars, based on 5 ratings
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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Helpful Score: 2
In this suspenseful Da Vinci Code knockoff from British author Napier (Nemesis), Harry Blake, an antiquarian book dealer specializing in old maps and manuscripts, agrees to help Sir Toby Tebbit translate a 400-year-old journal, written in code, that Sir Toby has inherited from a heretofore unknown relative in Jamaica. The manuscript chronicles the adventures of a young cabin boy, James Ogilvie, who traveled to the Americas as part of a secret mission for the Elizabethan crown. When a mysterious woman approaches Blake about buying the journal, he refuses to sell. Later, Blake returns to the Tebbit household to discover that Sir Toby has been brutally murdered. Teaming up with rival historian Zola Kahn and Sir Toby's daughter, Debbie, the trio soon join a race to determine the meaning behind Ogilvie's encrypted text. A trail reaching as far back as the Crusades leads toward a holy relic that could be worth millionsor could be the key to a worldwide terrorist plot. Deftly mixing history, science and fiction, Napier keeps the action escalating toward a satisfying climax.
gigi avatar reviewed Splintered Icon on + 355 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
A very interesting mystery novel. It keeps your attention throughout the book.
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A historical icon is central to this book. A secret conspiracy over centuries of time unravels. This is an intersting book as involves coded items and secret purposes based around a diary that dates from the 16th century and a religious icon that is a thousand years old.
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This book had me on the edge of my seat, and I couldn't put it down until I finished it---I HAD to find out what was coming next!
From back cover:
Antiquarian bookseller Harry Blake is hired to appraise a four-hundred-year old journal bequeathed to a wealthy landowner. At first, it appears to be only the curiously coded diary of a young cabin boy aboard Sir Walter Raleigh's celebrated 1585 Elizabethan expedition. But when Harry's client is murdered and his own life is threatened, he realizes that he's opened the door to a mystery worth killing for.
Enlisting the aid of eminent map dealer Zola Khan, Harry uncovers something else. Buried in the cryptic writings are puzzling references to a 'secret purpose'; terrified revelations of murder at sea, and an astonishing disclosure: the location of an invaluable holy relic thought lost for more than a thousand years.
Harry and Zola follow a trail that leads them to an ancient and dangerous secret conspiracy still unraveling after centuries, and possessing the unimaginable power to literally change history--and splinter it forever.
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reviewed Splintered Icon on + 13 more book reviews
In the manner of Dan Brown. Quick read. Larger print in larger formatted book than the usual paperback I can just picture Harrison Ford as the hero!
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A very fast paced read. The story kept me interested and wanting to see what comes next. Very good read if you like the religious icon type mysteries.
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An interesting scenario and an interesting book.
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Good....but not great. Easy fun read....love any book w/Globe Trotting that is not too scary. This one fits the bill.


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