{"product_id":"9780007325382_the-last-testament","title":"The Last Testament","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the Number One bestselling author of The Righteous Men comes this staggering religious conspiracy thriller. The Last Testament: It was written. It was lost. It will save us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eApril 2003: as the Baghdad Museum of Antiquities is looted, a teenage Iraqi boy finds an ancient clay tablet in a long-forgotten vault. He takes it and runs off into the night …\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeveral years later, at a peace rally in Jerusalem, the Israeli prime minister is about to sign a historic deal with the Palestinians. A man approaches from the crowd and seems to reach for a gun – bodyguards shoot him dead. But in his hand was a note, one he wanted to hand to the prime minister.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe shooting sparks a series of tit-for-tat killings which could derail the peace accord. Washington sends for trouble-shooter and peace negotiator Maggie Costello, after she thought she had quit the job for good. She follows a trail that takes her from Jewish settlements on the West Bank to Palestinian refugee camps, where she discovers the latest deaths are not random but have a distinct pattern. All the dead men are archaeologists and historians – those who know the buried secrets of the ancient past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMenaced by fanatics and violent extremists on all sides, Costello is soon plunged into high-stakes international politics, the worldwide underground trade in stolen antiquities and a last, unsolved riddle of the Bible.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sam Bourne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47284856553621,"sku":"9780007325382","price":6.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007325382.png?v=1776992072","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007325382_the-last-testament","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}