The Black Madonna

Description

In the ruins of Gaza, the war-torn Palestinian city that has been a metropolis since the time of the Pharaohs, a plucky young female archaeologist has made a remarkable find: possibly the earliest known image of the Virgin Mary, created during her lifetime. But before she can reveal it to the world, it is stolen from her amidst the chaos of an Israeli airstrike. Who has stolen it and why? And what hidden secret does it conceal? 'A truly compelling, globetrotting thriller...Look out, Dan Brown, make way for Millar.' - Jeffery Deaver

Peter Millar was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read French and Russian. He subsequently joined Reuters and was posted to Brussels, before beginning a life-long love affair with Berlin as the only non-German western correspondent in East Berlin. In 1985 he joined the Telegraph group and in 1989 the Sunday Times as Central Europe correspondent. He was named Foreign Correspondent of the Year for his coverage of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Peter Millar is also the author of three thrillers in English as well as a travel book, All Gone to Look for America, and the newly released, 1989: The Berlin Wall: My Part in Its Downfall. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.