True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant by Brad Ricca
True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant by Brad Ricca
True Raiders tells the untold real-life tale of Monty Parker, a British rogue nobleman who, after being dared to do so by Ava Astor, the so-called most beautiful woman in the world, headed a secret 1909 expedition to find the fabled Ark of the Covenant. This remarkable story reads like Raiders of the Lost Ark but stands on its own as an incredible chapter in history, one of adventure and mystery, though it has been almost completely forgotten today.
In 1908, Parker is approached by an obscure Finnish scholar named Valter Juvelius, who claims to have discovered a secret code in the Bible that reveals the location of the Ark. Parker assembles a ragtag group of blue blood adventurers, odd psychics, and a Dominican priest to engage in a secret excavation just outside the city walls of Jerusalem.
Making use of recently uncovered records from the original expedition and several newly translated sources, True Raiders is the first retelling of this group's adventures -- in the space between fact and faith, science and romance.
St. Martin's Press, Hardcover, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2021
THIS IS A BRAND NEW BOOK.