A suspicious death in Istanbul leaves one ancient scroll and clues to
finding another in the hands of Drew Korchula, a 32-year-old American
expat, and a Turkish dwarf named Kadir. Drew is desperate to turn
everything over to the academic community, and in the process redeem
himself in the eyes of his estranged wife, but Kadir is only interested
in what they can get for their scroll on the black market. Not everyone
wants to see the scrolls go public, however, and some will stop at
nothing to protect the Catholic Church from the revelations embodied in
the priceless manuscripts. An intellectual and theological thriller
unraveling the mystery of a cold case more than 2,000 years old, The
Christos Mosaic takes the reader through the backstreets of Istanbul and
Cairo to clandestine negotiations with antiquities smugglers and
soldiers of fortune, on a nautical skirmish off the coast of Alexandria,
and finally to the ruins of Constantine's palace buried beneath the
streets of present-day Istanbul.