Marleen Verhoef Knihy

Dead of night. Salonika, Greece, December 1939. A clandestine order of monks embarks on a desperate mission: to transport a mysterious vault to a hiding place high in the Italian Alps. Its sinister contents, concealed fro centuries, could rip apart the Christian world. Now, as the Nazi threat marches inexorably closer, good men and evil will be drawn into a violent and deadly hunt, sparking a relentless struggle that could forever change the world as we know it.

TOP LEVEL TERROR Washington has been working its data banks and computers overtime. Finally, the machines came up with a name: James Barbour Matlock the perfect man for the assignment. An assignment that would mean horror and pain to Matlock, that would mean the savaging of the girl he loved --- and almost surely his own death. But the soundless machines and the faceless men who monitored them didn't care as long as the conspiracy called Nimrod was destroyed along with him.

In a quiet suburban town a strange assortment of men and women gather for a momentous weekend. Meanwhile in Zurich, Moscow and Washington, the time machine is already ticking. But countermeasures are in motion. In Washington, John Tanner bets his life in a gamble to destroy the menacing conspiracy that hangs over us all. "Shattering...it will cost you the night and the cold hours of the morning!" (Cincinnati Enquirer)