Description

Just in time for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, True Raiders is The Da Vinci Code meets Lost City of Z and is the true story of one adventurer s incredible 1909 quest for the legendary Ark of the Covenant.

From Edgar Award-nominated author Brad Ricca, this book tells the 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 priest, to engage in a secret excavation just outside the city walls of Jerusalem. They encounter traps, spies, mysteries, secret societies, and dark forces more ancient than the Old Testament itself. In a sprawling adventure that reaches from King Tut s tomb to the Titanic and even to the cold streets of Whitechapel, True Raiders tells the true story behind one of the world s most beloved movies — and how it s all somehow connected.

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 adventure.