An ARKANE Thriller by J.F. Penn
Tree of Life
They will create Paradise on Earth… by killing everyone in the world.
On Yom Kippur, a fragment of a map is stolen from the oldest Jewish library in the world, and a scholar dies for it.
Torn into four when the Inquisition scattered the Portuguese Jewish community, the map leads to the Garden of Eden.
An heiress who believes humanity's time is over wants it found. A hidden order that has guarded it for centuries wants it lost.
Morgan and Jake follow the Diaspora across four continents to a door in a mountain, and learn why Eden was walled off from the world.
This was no gentle Eden.
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The research behind the book
Ets Haim
The oldest functioning Jewish library in the world, with sand on the floors. The fire is fiction; the treasure is real.
Learn more →Jewish pirates
Kritzler's history of the Sephardic corsairs, bought in the Ets Haim bookshop, launched the Jamaica trail.
The first synagogue in the Americas
Kahal Zur Israel in Recife, founded 1636 under the Dutch.
The Tree of Life in stone
The ruins of St Paul's really carry a Tree of Life carving. Jo found it after choosing the location.
The Iran thesis
David Rohl mapped the rivers of Genesis onto the Aras and Qizil Uzan. The book follows him to Sahand.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault
The real doomsday vault in the permafrost, holding seeds against the end of the world.
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Stone of Fire
Book 1
Crypt of Bone
Book 2
Ark of Blood
Book 3
One Day in Budapest
Book 4
Day of the Vikings
Book 5
Gates of Hell
Book 6
One Day in New York
Book 7
Destroyer of Worlds
Book 8
End of Days
Book 9
Valley of Dry Bones
Book 10
Tree of Life
Book 11 · this book
Tomb of Relics
Book 12
Soldiers of God
Short story
Spear of Destiny
Book 13