Lynn Sholes & Joe Moore The Grail Conspiracy

The Grail Conspiracy

Lynn Sholes & Joe Moore

Midnight Ink, Sep 2005, $14.95

ISBN: 0738707872

Satellite News Network reporter Cotten Stone is in Iraq covering the effects of economic sanctions on women and children when her local driver abruptly dumps her in the middle of the desert. She luckily finds an archeological dig headed by Dr. Gabriel Archer, but before she ask for help Cotten sees an Arab demand Archer hand over something before shooting the archeologist. Archer manages to kill the Arab, but knows he is dying so he quotes the bible, insists she is the one and tells her to take the box and run in a language that she only heard uttered by her deceased twin sister Motnees.

The Turks help get her to Ankara and from there via the U.K. to New York. She scans the archival news reports on Archer, but finds only the kind words of Reverend Dr. John Tyler, once a student of Archer, upbeat. However, the box and her related video are stolen making her wonder if she had the Holy Grail as Archer implied. Since John teaches at nearby St. Thomas College in White Plains, Cotten visits him to obtain his help. They soon unravel a clue that leads to New Orleans where Dr. Charles Sinclair of BioGentec Laboratories heads an ignoble experiment that could start Armageddon.

THE GRAIL COMPANY is an action-packed Christian medical thriller that cleverly uses background news reports to set the date with the American military buildup just beginning. The story line never slows down from the moment Archer says: "Geh el crip" (you're the one) until the final confrontation in New Orleans. This fascinating biblical science fiction tale is more a twenty-first century Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail than a Brown clone with thank God the sequel THE LAST SECRET coming out shortly.

Harriet Klausner