A mixture of Matthew Reilly and Indiana Jones. The technical detail may put some off but I found it a page turning read

Great mix of history, action and adventure. The books spans three main areas of action - 258AD, 1684 and present day. There are early Christians trying to thwart the might of the Roman Emperors, Sephardic Jews caught up in the Inquisition and then Jack Howard getting caught up in the maelstrom that is the modern day Black Hand.

Who knew that such a small coin could spark such an adventure. Jack travels from IMU, to Portugal and the Caribbean and back again. I loves the parts of the book where we see the characters involved in the earlier subterfuge and then as we read on we realise that lots of the modern day characters are connected more than they realised!

Great read!