What can enclose the Mandaean alphabet? Written on the inside of an old clay bowl, its simple and irregular strokes contain a powerful magic spell. When the mercenary Ahmed Sadoun steals an old bowl of the Archaeological Museum of Baghdad, is not aware of events just to launch.
The Abagada, the oldest alphabet still be heard, will release its full force. Only a few men have the knowledge necessary to achieve and the Mandaean priest Zakaria Asgari is one of them.
However, it is not the only one that pursues power. Between the walls of his old office in Cambridge, Professor Samuel Sinclair tries to fit the pieces of a puzzle that will elevate him to the top of the academic pyramid. Account with the help of his protegee, the young orientalist Andrea Jacobs, and Martin Crown, the sinister director of the Christian Association of San Juan.
In a race against time, the researcher Victor Lavine oppose their wishes trying to unravel the clues that encloses the sacred alphabet before him .
They will embark on a journey so hectic and dangerous to reach a revelation jealously guarded by the Mandaeans, a Gnostic community whose origins are lost in time.
Will walk past the stage of the sect, from the tomb of Absalom to the cave of John the Baptist or the ruins of Amarna in an adventure game that will be much more than their own lives.
The Sacred Alphabet is a fast-paced action novel that the reader can not stop reading. A scene is intertwined with the next to keep their attention and interest grows as it passes the pages.
The adventure and entertainment go hand in hand in this book that aims only to tell us that words can still move mountains ...
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