Clint Tailey the world famous TV Evangelist is fighting desperately to keep his failing empire alive. Wrought with scandal and declining TV ratings he is desperate to find a way to keep himself in the spotlight. When he reads an article on the Shroud of Turin, and another about a quest to find Noah’s Ark, he sees an opportunity to ride on the coat – tails of a wealthy Texas business man who is on a quest to find religious artifacts around the world. Then a lonely young woman walks into his life after she quit her successful career in Bio Medicine. The quest for all of them takes them across 4 continents and working with historical objects from thousands of years ago. Their adventure takes them down a road in which the consequences will change the world and affect every living person on Earth.
Enjoying this book really depends if you share the author's belief in God or not. As I do not, I spent most of the time scoffing and rolling my eyes at the narrative. I have also been troubled by the way archaeological finds were handled (damage, robbery, disturbing the site) as if this was the 1920s, by the ease the Israeli-Arab conflict was done with (not to mention that Iran is Shi'ite Muslim and the Israeli Arabs are Sunni), by open threads (what's the meaning of the archeologist that shared a jolt of energy with the pregnant scientist?), by the fact that the heroine was dismissed at 60% of the book, replaced by a disjointed narrative without any real lead.