Right up to the last 100 pages or so of this book, I was fully intending to give it two stars. Maybe two and a half. Fairly tired old "stunning biblical secret is discovered that the bad guys will stop at nothing to suppress" stuff and a whole lot of fairly boring Middle East politics. THEN the author snatches victory (sort of) from the jaws of defeat with some twists you won't see coming, some twists you'll coming but aren't the twists you think they are, and a more satisfying ending than I expected. So many of these type of books end up with the world-shattering secret ultimately being destroyed or otherwise suppressed. It's a nice change in this one to have it announced to the world at the end of the book. ( )

This is a fast paced thriller
Main character is Maggie Costello who is an Irish/American who works for the American government she has been asked to assist in the Middle East Peace Process.
Lots of deaths, double crosses and mysteries later she with a bit of help in finding an ancient tablet from Abraham explaining how the ancient land of Israel should be divided up.
Is this enough to solve the peace process?
OK fast thriller ideal for reading on a beach. ( )

Brilliant.

Maggie Costello is called out of her new direction of peace making to go to Jerusalem. She doesn't know the real reason, but it gives her the opportunity to leave behind the poor new life she has made and atone for her previous errors, for which she cannot forgive herself.

Plenty of twists and turns in this action packed chase to find and use the Last Testament of Abraham to save the Israeli/Palestinian peace talks. ( )

'The Mirror' reviewed it as "The biggest challenger to Dan Brown's crown." Well, hardly... not even close, especially not this book. The plot of the story centers around the brokering of a Middle East peace treaty, and the discovery of an object from antiquity, a tablet which turns out to be the last will and testament of a Biblical patriarch, bearing the bequeathment of Mount Moriah (aka the Temple Mount).

The pace of the story was not all that engaging until about the last third of the book. Also, rather distracting was the timeline which kept switching from the present to the past, and from different perspectives at that, so that made the flow rather disjointed. ( )

It wasn't great - even in Danish.
There was a distinct lack of tension, and it didn't grip me at all. Took practically an eternity to get through, and I only finished it 'cause the library sent me an email saying it'd gotta go back!
It's set in the Middle-Dast of course, and is connected with Middle-East peace talks. Given that we all know they'll never have peace down there, not while anyone from either side is alive/believes that their god gave them exclusive rights to the area; it can hardly be expected to generate any tension based on something potentially de-railling the latest round of talks/mud-casting.
So, it's gotta be better in other areas, in tension, in action, in personal relationships, and while it tries, it can't quite believe enough in itself to pull it off.
Then, the final revelation of what the whole thing turned on, that has been not quite revealled many times previously, was a bit ho-hum, as well. Especially, as it doesn't take a 5-year-old to tell you that no matter what it is, either side will denounce it as a fake anyway.
I read one of his previous books (in English); The Righteous Men, and as a Dan Brown photocopy, it wasn't half bad. But this...well, I won't be rushing to check out any more. Even free from the library. ( )