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Sanctus

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The certainties of the modern world are about to be blown apart by a three-thousand-year-old conspiracy nurtured by blood and lies.

A man throws himself to his death from the oldest inhabited place on the face of the earth: a mountain known as the Citadel, a Vatican-like city-state that towers above the city of Ruin in southern Turkey. But this is no ordinary suicide; it is a symbolic act. And thanks to the media, it is witnessed by the entire world.

Few people understand its consequence. For foundation worker Kathryn Mann and a handful of others around the world, it is evidence that a hopeful, new beginning is at hand. For the cowled and secretive monks who live inside the Citadel, it may mean the end of everything they have built—and they will kill, torture, and break every law to stop it. For Liv Adamsen, a New York reporter, it spurs the memory of her lost brother and begins the next stage of a journey into the heart of her own identity. And at that journey's end lies a discovery that will change everything.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from July 18, 2011
      In British author Toyne's stellar first in a projected trilogy, a thriller in the Dan Brown tradition, an ancient sect of monks who live in the Citadel, a church carved out of a mountain near the fictional Turkish city of Ruin, have been protecting a secret, "the Sacrament," since before the Christian era. A monk who knows the secret, Brother Samuel, escapes from the Citadel and throws himself off the mountain in full view of spectators and news crews. Later, American newspaper reporter Liv Adamsen learns that her phone number, carved into a small leather strap, has been found inside Samuel's stomach. The monk turns out to be her brother, whom she hasn't seen in years, so Liv travels to Ruin to try to solve the puzzle of his mysterious death. She and several other groups battle the deadly monks, who will stop at nothing to thwart their efforts to discover the Sacrament's secret. The truly mind-boggling revelation will leave astounded readers eager for the next installment.

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