True Raiders is The Lost City of Z meets The Da Vinci Code, from
critically acclaimed author Brad Ricca.
This book tells the untold true story of Monty Parker, a British rogue
nobleman who, after being dared to do so by Ava Astor, the so-called
"most beautiful woman in the world," headed a secret 1909 expedition to
find the fabled Ark of the Covenant. Like a real-life version of
Raiders of the Lost Ark, this incredible story of adventure and
mystery has almost been completely forgotten today.
In 1908, Monty is approached by a strange Finnish scholar named Valter
Juvelius who claims to have discovered a secret code in the Bible that
reveals the location of the Ark. Monty assembles a ragtag group of
blueblood adventurers, a renowned psychic, and a Franciscan father, to
engage in a secret excavation just outside the city walls of Jerusalem.
Using recently uncovered records from the original expedition and
several newly translated sources, True Raiders is the first retelling
of this group's adventures- in the space between fact and faith, science
and romance.