Book of the week 6/13/13: 30 Pieces of Sliver

30 Pieces Of Silver

by

Carolyn McCray

Every month or so I go to the free list at Amazon for kindle and pick a few books to add to my kindle.  Then when I don't want to spend money on a book I select from one of the free ones I have stored.  Last summer 30 Pieces Of Sliver was on the free list and I selected it to read a week or two ago and finished it up last night.   It is an action adventure story with a historical and religious emphasis.  One of the main characters is a female archaeologist who,  along with her previous college professor and four special op agents are doing research and finding the bones of the disciples.   To name a few of the discoveries they find John the Baptist underneath the Eiffel Tower,  Jesus' brother James in Hungary.-, and  Mary Magdalene's bones are found in Turkey.     So the story line takes the reader to many locations.  Hot on their heels is a violent cult group by the name of The Knot.   The Knot's mission is to keep the research team from finding Jesus Christ's bones.  The research team wants to find his bones to prove the existence of a historical Jesus and to disprove the resurrection.  In addition they want to collect DNA from Jesus' bones to look for the God Gene.   Each of the skeletons they find has a piece of silver money with it.  The novel switches back and forth between the present day story line outlined above and a biblical story line that tells the story of the crucifixion from Judas' point of view.  Things get steamy between the female doctor archaeologist and the commander of the special op group toward the end.   It ends with a real shocker but I don't want to spoil it for anyone who might want to read it.   I enjoyed the book.  It was exciting and had a lot of action and I am open to various ideas.  I would caution people who take conservative view points seriously as they might be offended by the book.   Although it is a work of fiction it does deal with some controversial ideas.    Please click on the author's name and title of the novel to follow links to more information.  And enjoy the video below.