During excavations of an ancient fortress in Israel, a manuscript from the 1st century AD is discovered. A peaceful scientific expedition that found the old scrolls is destroyed, and the surviving archaeologists are ruthlessly hunted. The Legion—an organization created back under Emperor Constantine—guards the dogmas of faith in its own way, physically eliminating those who encroach upon them.
Why has the ancient parchment doomed to death everyone who touched it? What do the Galilean preacher Yeshua Ha-Nozri, the writer Josephus Flavius, and the procurator of the province of Judea, Pontius Pilate—the Golden Spear—have to do with all this? What exactly did the author of the manuscript—Yehuda, known to us by the nickname Iscariot—write on those ancient skins? Will Professor Katz, the beautiful Arin bin Tariq, and journalist Valentin Shagrovsky manage to escape the merciless legionaries? Will they be able to preserve the manuscript and tell the world a story hidden from it for 2,000 years?
A chase novel, a mystery novel, a novel of investigation. A true thriller from Yan Valetov, author of the bestseller No Man’s Land.