Unholy Grail

D.L. Wilson

Berkley, Apr 2007, $7.99

ISBN: 0425214788

Out of the blue, Father Joseph Romano gets a phone call from a man asking him to meet him at a certain time and place to discuss the Gospel of James, which describes what happened at the crucifixion.  When the priest arrives at the Grand Central Station locale, a shot is fired at a woman holding a box.  Someone tried to kill Brittany Hamar who is wring a book The Jesus Fraud that questions the basic tents of Christianity.

Britt received the same call that Joseph did.  Soon two priests including one that is a friend of Joseph dies.  Joseph wants to know what Britt is working on that is so controversial that someone wanted her dead and how that ties to the dead priests.  Britt tells him about a covert group the RexDeus and their inner circle Le Serpent Rouge dedicated to preserving the bloodline of Christ and Mary Magdalene.  Britt has in her possession a piece of the Gospel of James that claims Mary was pregnant with Jesus’ offspring.  Joseph and Britt team up moving across Europe in a quest for the UNHOLY GRAIL believing the Lea Serpent Rouge has sent their minion after them.

In the tradition of the Da Vinci Code, D.L. Wilson provides an exciting thought provoking religious thriller that will astonish readers with the amount of historical facts and dogma interwoven into the storyline  without slowing down the action-packed story line.  The two protagonists undertake the quest to quell their doubts, but find much more than they anticipated.   Although the premise is over the top, the audience will appreciate this action adventure thriller.

Harriet Klausner