Altar of Bones
Philip Carter
Language: English
Pages: 455
ISBN: 1439199086
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
“They didn’t have to kill him…He never drank from the altar of bones.”
Cryptic dying words from a murdered homeless woman in present day San Francisco unlock a decades-buried secret that changed history. Now a pair of ruthless assassins are sent to cut the few living "loose ends." And a young, resourceful woman on the run encounters a determined man with his own connected past and vengeful agenda. Forced to partner for survival and answers, a fast-paced and deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, taking them across the globe from the winding streets of Paris to the faded palaces of Budapest to the frozen lakes of Mongolia...where destiny, passion, and further betrayal await them.
The Altar of Bones has it all: The Russian mob. KGB spies. Presidential assasination. A doomed Hollywood legend. Deathbed confessions. Corrosive power. Shattered families. Guardians of an ancient religious icon housing a secret others will kill to possess. The dark promise of immortality. And it delivers on its ambitious premise to leave you stunned and breathless at the end.
see the soldiers’ dark blue uniforms. There were only three of them. Lena took a step back, then another and another, until she was behind the waterfall again, at the slit in the rocks, and well beneath the huge wave of snow on the bluff above. She could feel it trembling again, a vibration beneath her boots. Surely Nikolai could feel it, too? But, no, all his attention was focused on the sleigh and the soldiers, who were getting ever closer. He turned around, and she lifted the knife, pointed
and shook his head. “Miles, the devious bastard—he used me to do his dirty work for him. I had made Miles Taylor, I shaped and molded him, and so I thought he was my creature, that I owned him. It was arrogant of me, I know, and in my arrogance I swallowed that phony document of his hook, line, and sinker.” “You thought you were so smart,” Zoe said, startling everybody because she’d been quiet for so long. “And yet you were wrong about everything. The document was a fake, but so was the amulet,
on a nearly empty parking lot and a strange forest of rusting concrete pilings thrusting up out of the snow. The plastic bag full of Ry’s stuff trembled in her hand. At first she thought it was her own nerves finally letting go, then she realized Ry’s cell phone was vibrating. Zoe stared at the phone, unsure of what to do. Should she answer it? It was one of the prepaid cells they’d picked up in St. Petersburg, so who would even know the number? Her hands shook a little as she unzipped the
Cleeland Lewis looked down at Ry’s feet, bare and cut all to pieces by the broken glass from his living room window. “Gonna need a pair of boots, too.” 9 Galveston, Texas OFFICER BEADSLEY stood on the top step of the Sacred Heart Church, watching a big man come at him fast from out of the wet summer night. He planted his feet and unsnapped his holster. “Hey, bubba,” he called out. The guy slowed, but he didn’t stop. The cop’s hand rested now on the butt of his Glock. “You see that
Chapter 32 Part Five: The Riddle Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Chapter 42 Chapter 43 Part Six: The Altar Chapter 44 Chapter 45 Chapter 46 Chapter 47 Chapter 48 Chapter 49 Chapter 50 Chapter 51 Chapter 52 Chapter 53 Chapter 54 Chapter 55 Chapter 56 Chapter 57 Chapter 58 Epilogue Back Flap Back Cover ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I WANT TO give thanks to the following people for their tremendous support