"dying tonight was not an option. tomorrow maybe, or the next day, who knows. but not tonight." the dangerous chase for the missing pages of the book of kells had begun. powerful antiquity dealers wanted these pages, believing they contained clues to the location of an even more valuable treasure. it was key murphy's ancestor that wrote those clues 1200 years before. key was to discover a secret buried deep in his memory, making him the only person alive who could find it, "if the barbarians don't kill us first." "o'connor takes these familiar dan brown-style thriller elements-hidden societies, secret histories, shocking revelations buried in historical events (plus a certain cosmopolitan flavor; the narrative bounces from philadelphia to jamaica to ireland and elsewhere)-and combines them to craft a thriller that will be pleasing to any fan of the da vinci code (2003)." kirkus reviews