While working on a dig in the most remote part of France, Julia Kerrigan comes across the find of her career—a trove of skeleton, many with holes at the front of the skull and arrow wounds studding the various skeleton bones. Her excitement about her discovery disappears the following day, however, as her mentor and a friend is brutally murdered.
Meanwhile, Jake Thurby, who has been travelling through Cambodia as a travel photographer, lands a job with a beautiful Cambodian lawyer, Chemda Tek, that takes him to the mysterious Plain of Jars. What starts as a fascinating assignment soon turns deadly, as Jake and Chemda realize they’ve uncovered a horrific historical clue that authorities will go to any length to keep quiet.
Linking the two investigations is a strange, demonic woman—dazzling in her physical prowess and unstoppable in her hunger for vengeance. What this killer is avenging is the link between prehistoric remains in the European caves, the horrific genetic experiments still occurring in Caucasian Russia, the mystical mutations committed by Khmer Rouge, and a strange fortress perched at the top of the world, in Communist Tibet.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tom Knox is the pseudonym of Sean Thomas, author of the internationally bestselling novels The Genesis Secret and The Marks of Cain. Born in England, he has travelled the world writing for various newspapers and magazines, including The Times, The Guardian and The Daily Mail. He lives in London. For more information, please visit www.tomknoxbooks.com
THE LOST GODDESS
By Tom Knox
Viking Hardcover ▪ On-sale: February 6, 2012
$26.95 ▪ ISBN: 978-0-670-02318-9
ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN E-BOOK
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