Silver - Tapa dura

Sometimes the truth is anything but honest. Sometimes the stories everyone knows by heart are lies. Sometimes lies are all we have left.Two thousand years ago, thirty silver Tyrian shekels were paid to secure the most infamous betrayal of all time.Melted down by the grandsons of Judas Iscariot, in the dark heart of the Sicarii fortress, the silver was re-forged as a dagger. When the Sicarii zealots committed mass suicide in AD73 the dagger of Iscariot and the truth of his sacrifice were lost.Until now.A religious cult calling itself the Disciples of Judas has risen in the Middle East. Its influence is pernicious, its reach long. In thirteen cities across Europe thirteen people martyr themselves in the name of Judas, promising forty days and forty nights of terror. They twist the words of ancient prophecies to drive home the fear. On the last day, they promise, faith will fall. Everything you believe in will be proved wrong. Everything you hold true will fail.In a race against time – and prophecy – believing the terrorists intend to assassinate the Pope as part of their plan to bring down the Catholic Church, a team of combat specialists tracks a labyrinthine course through truth, shades of truth and outright lies.Forty days and forty nights of fear. And today is day one.

Steven Savile is an international bestselling author and the #1 UK bestselling author of Primeval, along with a bestselling original audio novel Torchwood: Hidden for BBC Audiobooks. He was also a winner of a 2002 Writers of the Future Award.