Dagon's Hat

by Jack Dunn

In 1928, in a small village on the Mediterranean coast of Syria, a Ploughman tilling his fields unearthed an old tomb that lead to the finding of the ruins of Ugarit, an ancient civilization dating back to about 3500 BCE that was connected to Mespotamia by a trade route and mysteriously disappeared from the face of the earth. The Bible stories of Daniel are traced to this ancient city and tell about Babylonian captivity of the Jews from the Kingdon of Judah in Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II in 586 BCE. Daniel became the soothsayer of this king who was famous for the construction of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World in 600BCE, the legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon. In 2008, after they find The Tablet of Time, Oliver Quimbley and Justine Denapolis go back to the first city in the world, Eridu, in southern Iraq, looking for more tablets in the Babylonian god Enki's throne room. As they search for anything related to a Mysterious Being that was said to be present at Creation, Jonathan Anderson and Lisa Anderson are in New York City trying to uncover the truth about how the United States Central Intelligence Agency is involved in the formation of a huge worldwide Private Security Company. While they are doing this, two Catholic priests, Joshua Saffarian and Luke Roberts go the the controversial Davos Economic Summit in Switzerland in February 2009 and find out that stolen artifacts from the Iraq Museum have surfaced in Berlin. One of the Seven Evil Spirits they encountered at the door to Hell in the Temple of Ganzer in Uruk is trying to sell them to the highest bidder. After an escalating whirlwind of events that leads them all over the globe, everyone comes together in Ugarit and the ancient fables of Babylon, Syria and Israel collide when tablets are found that tell how knowledge about Noah and a Flood that devastated the earth before Jesus Christ lived will soon change the destiny of mankind just like it did four thousand years ago.

204 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009