The Lost Testament

An ancient parchment. A devastating conspiracy. One chance to expose it. 
A new, high-adrenalin adventure featuring Angela Lewis and Chris Bronson, for those who enjoy Dan Brown and Paul Sussman.

[Becker's] intelligent mixture of fact with fiction really hits the spot  and gets your adrenalin racing. Once you start it is impossible to stop!

James Becker spent over twenty years in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air arm and served during the Falklands War. Throughout his career he has been involved in covert operations in many of the world's hotspots; places like Yemen, Northern Ireland and Russia. He is an accomplished combat pistol shot and has an abiding interest in ancient and medieval history. This is his sixth book featuring Chris Bronson and Angela Lewis.

FROM THE PUBLISHERS THAT BROUGHT YOU DAN BROWN 
 
For thousands of years we guarded it. But now it has been found. This could be the end – for us; for our organisation; for the world. You must destroy it, and those who have taken it. 
 
An ancient object is discovered in a Cairo souk. Hours later, the market trader who sold it is tortured to death. As the bodies begin to pile up, a request for help is sent to British Museum historian Angela Lewis. 
 
Angela travels to Spain with her ex-husband, undercover police officer Chris Bronson. There they discover the key to the greatest secret in the history of Christianity. 
 
Their only problem is deciphering it before they are brutally murdered like those before them...

A Chris Bronson Thriller

Echo of the Reich

In 2012 an old enemy will launch a terrifying new attack.

James Becker spent over twenty years in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air arm and served during Falklands War. Throughout his career he has been involved in covert operations in many of the world's hotspots; places like Yemen, Northern Ireland and Russia. He is an accomplished combat pistol shot and has an abiding interest in ancient and medieval history.

AN OLD ENEMY 
 
Poland, 1945. A special Evacuation Kommando arrives at the Wencleslas Mine, site of the Nazis’ most secret weapon development project. A device known as Die Glocke is removed from the subterranean factory, loaded on to a transport aircraft and spirited out of war-ravaged Europe. No witnesses are left alive. 
 
A DESIRE FOR REVENGE 
 
London, today. Chris Bronson is working undercover for the Metropolitan Police. What begins as a routine investigation into a group of hooligans vandalising sites in North West London, takes a very sinister turn when Bronson discovers the attacks are being masterminded by a Far Right group. 
 
A WHOLE NEW LEVEL OF FEAR 
 
What if the prototype for a devastating new form of super-weapon survived the end of the war? What if sixty years later it has been perfected? Now imagine an old enemy who has been hiding in the shadows and is still fighting a war most thought had ended with the fall of Hitler. 
 
Chris Bronson has less than ten days to stop the biggest and most destructive terror attack the world has ever seen.

The Nosferatu Scroll

A race-against-time conspiracy thriller with a deadly twist from the bestselling author of The First Apostle.

James Becker spent over twenty years in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air arm and served during Falklands War. Throughout his career he has been involved in covert operations in many of the world's hotspots; places like Yemen, Northern Ireland and Russia. He is an accomplished combat pistol shot and has an abiding interest in ancient and medieval history.

BOHEMIA, 1741 
On the northern banks of the Vltava River, an extraordinary event is taking place. Inside a private chapel, a high-born Hungarian lady is being laid to rest. But not before her heart is removed from her body, and she is buried beneath a layer of heavy stones - lest she rise again to prey upon her victims ... 
 
VENICE, 2010 
Holidaying in the world's most beautiful city, Chris Bronson and Angela Lewis discover a desecrated tomb. Inside it is a female skeleton and an arcane diary dating back hundreds of years. Written in Latin, it references a scroll that will provide an 'answer' to an ancient secret. 
 
Soon corpses of young women, all killed in the same ritualistic manner, start appearing throughout the city. And when Angela disappears, Bronson knows that he must find her before she too is slaughtered. 
 
But Bronson's hunt for Angela leads him back to the Island of the Dead, and into a conspiracy more deadly than he could ever have imagined ...

The First Apostle

An adrenalin-fuelled, read-in-one-gulp chase thriller from the publishers who brought you Dan Brown.

Utterly spellbinding. The plot is stunning and breathtaking and leaves you racing to the end.... A truly amazing book. If you read nothing else this year, you must get hold of this

Exciting... fast paced and filled with non-stop action

James Becker spent over twenty years in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air arm and served during Falklands War . Throughout his career he has been involved in covert operations in many of the world's hotspots; places like Yemen, Northern Ireland and Russia. He is an accomplished combat pistol shot and has an abiding interest in ancient and medieval history.

An Englishwoman is found dead in a house near Rome. 
 
Her distraught husband enlists the help of his closest friend, Chris Bronson, who discovers an ancient inscription on a slab of stone above their fireplace. It translates as 'Here Lie the Liars.' 
 
But who are the liars? And what is it they are lying to protect? 
 
Pursued across Europe, Bronson uncovers a trail of clues that leads him back to the shadowy beginnings of Christianity; to a chalice decorated with mysterious symbols; to a secret code hidden within a scroll. 
 
And to a deadly conspiracy which - if revealed - will rock the foundations of our modern world.

The Messiah Secret

From the publishers who brought you Dan Brown, a read-in-one-gulp conspiracy thriller that unravels a mystery older than time itself.

AD 72: A band of warriors march across a mountainous wasteland. Only they know what they carry. And once they've reached their destination, they must all die to protect it. 
 
AD 2010: In a crumbling mansion deep in the English countryside a piece of ancient parchment has been found. Written in arcane code is the answer to a mystery that has explosive implications. 
 
Enter Chris Bronson. Determined to solve the mystery that has puzzled scholars and thinkers for nearly two millennia, he embarks on a journey to one of the most remote and hostile parts of the world. 
 
But someone is following him. 
 
Someone desperate to protect the centuries-old secret. And who is far more dangerous than he could ever have imagined...

The Moses Stone

In the bestselling tradition of The Shakespeare Secret, a read-in-one gulp thriller that unravels a mystery as ancient as it is deadly.

A thrilling historical mystery full of ingenious clues and unexpected twists.

AN ANCIENT CODE 
 
A clay tablet covered in ancient writing is found by an English couple in Morocco. A day later they are dead, killed in a car crash. But where is the relic they died to protect? 
 
A SINISTER SECRET 
 
Determined to uncover a secret that's endured for two millennia, Chris Bronson follows a trail of clues that lead him from the hustle of a Moroccan souk to the deserted caves of Qumran; from the sinister echoes of a water-filled tunnel under the city of Jerusalem to a windswept fortress whose name spells death. 
 
A DEADLY CHASE FOR THE TRUTH ... 
 
Threatened on every side by violent extremists, Bronson is plunged into a mystery rooted in biblical times. For the stone he must find is older and far more dangerous than he could ever have imagined ...

James Becker

An extraordinary discovery. 
 
When his old friend, Angela, invites him out to her archaeological dig in the Iraqi desert, Chris Bronson is expecting a relaxing few days and an overdue catch-up. But when they arrive at the site they find her colleagues slaughtered and a recent discovery defaced. 
 
An ancient mystery. 
 
Their only clue is an incomplete inscription, which holds the key to uncovering the truth behind a centuries-old secret. With unknown assassins hot on their heels, Chris and Angela are forced into a desperate hunt across the globe for the final piece of the puzzle. And if they don’t find it first, the consequences could be fatal . . . 
 
The race of their lives.

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