The Sword of Moses (Sneak Preview)

By Dominic Selwood

When former MI6 agent turned archaeologist Dr Ava Curzon is engaged by American intelligence to track down an African militia claiming to hold the Ark of the Covenant, she is plunged into a world where nothing is what it seems.

Her breakneck descent into the shadowy realm of dark biblical magic hurls her across continents and into the opaque worlds of the Knights Templar, freemasons, occultists, and extremist neo-Nazis, pushing her mentally and physically to the limits.

As the plot twists and turns across the centuries, she requires all her skills to solve a trail of ancient clues leading her inexorably towards a terrifying ritual. Taking centre stage, she faces the ultimate battle against an age-old evil she must stop at all costs.

Dr Ava Curzon is Lara Croft meets Evelyn Salt – the first real challenger to Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dominic Selwood
• Release date: Aug 14, 2013
• ISBN: 9780992633226

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The

Sword of

Moses

Dominic Selwood

THE SWORD OF MOSES

Dominic Selwood

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

‘The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name’

Exodus 15:3

(From a short passage widely believed to be

the oldest in the Bible)

DAY ONE

July 2013

Chapter 1

Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion

Aksum

Tigray Region

The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

They came before dawn, from the East, out of the Danakil desert.

The two white air-conditioned Land Cruisers sped through old Aksum, ancient city of warrior emperors, now a forgotten curiosity—a relic.

Only a few hundred miles to the east lay the vast Afar Depression—the Horn of Africa’s arid and scorching cradle of humanity. But the town of Aksum itself was fertile and lush, rich with grass and spreading trees.

As first light began to bleed over the horizon, they raced past Queen Sheba’s grandiose bathing pool—its once petal-strewn waters now murky and stagnant, long neglected.

Then on to