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The Ebony Coffin: A Jim Kirkwood Novel
The Ebony Coffin: A Jim Kirkwood Novel
The Ebony Coffin: A Jim Kirkwood Novel
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Jim Kirkwood's visit to an antique shop in Queens, New York, starts with an invitation and ends in a hail of bullets. Kirkwood, a self-indulgent, self-confident, and at times unsympathetic connoisseur of human nature, finds himself swept into a bottomless pit of betrayal and malice in his hunt for perhaps the greatest archeological find of all time. At a clandestine auction held at a mansion in southern England, the situation quickly turns deadly, throwing Kirkwood into a cat and mouse game of deception, greed, and murder.

In his search for what has been lost for hundreds of years, Kirkwood chases a man of the Church who just may be the most evil person he has ever encountered, and a woman who is by far the most beautiful and mysterious. Along with Iain MacLeod, Chief of the Clan MacLeod, Kirkwood crisscrosses Scotland and England in pursuit of a murderer and the treasure that may hold secrets associated with the Gnostic Gospels.

Reunited with an old comrade, Kirkwood must settle old scores, but it may cost him his life. The Ebony Coffin, author B. Eugene Ellison's fifth Jim Kirkwood novel, is an exhilarating, fast-paced adventure filled with history and intrigue.

LanguageEnglish
PublisheriUniverse
Release dateOct 22, 2007
ISBN9780595910595
The Ebony Coffin: A Jim Kirkwood Novel
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Burlan Eugene Ellison

B. Eugene Ellison, FSA Scot, lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, with his wife Susan. After a career in engineering, Gene now enjoys his first passions: writing, painting, and lecturing on Scottish history and the art of whisky tasting. The Ebony Coffin is his fifth Jim Kirkwood novel. For more, visit www.bellison.com.

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