Cross Bones is a mix of adventure, science, and mystery that captivates one from the moment you begin reading. After receiving a skeleton photograph from a man named Kessler at the examination of the bones of one Avram Ferris, Temperance Brennan, the leading protagonist and a brilliant anthropologist, is thrown into a conspiracy that leads her from Montreal, Canada to Jerusalem, Israel. Is the picture she holds in her care a picture of the bones of Christ? And if not, then is the man entombed in a secret loculi it the 'Jesus Family Crypt'? If so, and the bones of this skeleton's siblings are revealed to the world, it would blow the top off of Christianity as we know it, and cause world wide panic and war.
Well written and undoubtedly well researched, Cross Bones is one of the most poignant pieces of literature I've ever read, It keeps you on your feet the entire stretch of the journey, and I'm eager to learn the outcome.
These books are ALWAYS well-researched. Makes you want to do something like this for a living - especially if it lets you travel like this.
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