A fast-paced historical thriller about the Dead Sea manuscripts, a finalist for the prestigious Ateneo de Sevilla Novel Award 2023. Jericho, 1959 Philologist Peter Fortabat discovers a first-century scroll in a cave by the Dead Sea. Its disturbing contents could shake the foundations of Christianity as it reveals a profile of Jesus very different from that of the canonical gospels. A series of murders in Fortabat's circle will try to prevent the manuscript from being divulged through a conspiracy that will extend its tentacles in the West Bank, the United Kingdom and Spain. Madrid, 2010 Fifty-one years later, the life of the boy Martín Amorós will take a turn when he meets Simón, a mysterious healer of forgotten words whom he tries to resurrect in the vault of the Instituto Cervantes. Hitmen on the trail of the parchment found in 1959 murder an antique dealer in London and head for Spain. Inspector Yacob Salandpet will try to prevent the mercenaries' objective in a fast-paced action against the clock during the final of the Football World Cup.
