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The Magic Circle Neville, Katherine

Katherine Neville, bestselling author of The Eight, combines gripping historical fiction with a modernday thriller to create The Magic Circlean astonishing novel of mankinds quest to harness the power of earth and the heavensSnake River, Idaho, 1989Ariel Behn, a toxic materials expert at a remote nuclear site, finds her wellordered life shattered when her cousin is slain by an unknown assassin His shocking death leaves Ariel sole heir to a family legacy: a sinister cache of manuscripts that sweeps her into the deadly center of international intrigueand a mystery that spans the centuries Jerusalem, 32 ADDuring the last week in the life of Christ, as the world stands on the brink of a new twothousandyear cycle, Emperor Tiberius works desperately to decipher the tantalizing clues to an ageold enigma He will not be the only one For whoever assembles and interprets these cryptic clues will possess the power to control the fate of the world Now, At the center of this circle of ancient riddles stands the one woman who can pull the strands together: Ariel Behn What strange powers lie hidden within the manuscripts? As Ariel races across continents to reveal the dark secrets buried in her familys past, she begins to unlock the chilling truth of the coming millenniumBoldly incorporating contemporary characters and reallife historical figuresincluding the Apostles, Caligula, the Romanovs, and Genghis KhanKatherine Neville takes us on a fascinating journey from the rise of the Roman Empire to the fall of the Berlin Wall Richly textured and marvelously entertaining, The Magic Circle is an epic for our time