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    The Testament: A Novel
    The Testament: A Novel
    The Testament: A Novel
    Audiobook (abridged)7 hours

    The Testament: A Novel

    Written by Eric Van Lustbader

    Narrated by Eric Conger

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Braverman Shaw—"Bravo" to his friends—always knew his father had secrets. But not until Dexter Shaw dies does Bravo discover that his father belonged to the Order of Gnostic Observatines, a hidden sect long believed to be extinct. For centuries, the Order has guarded a lost Testament that could shake Christianity to its foundations. Dexter Shaw was the latest Keeper of the Testament—and Bravo is his chosen successor.

    To find the Testament, Bravo, a medieval scholar and cryptanalyst, must follow the clues his father left behind. His companion in this quest is Jenny Logan, a woman he barely knows. Jenny is a Guardian, assigned by the Order to protect Bravo, or so she claims. Bravo soon learns that he can trust no one where the Testament is concerned, perhaps not even Jenny....

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateSep 5, 2006
    ISBN9781593979928
    The Testament: A Novel
    Author

    Eric Van Lustbader

    Eric Van Lustbader is the author of twenty-five international bestsellers, as well as twelve Jason Bourne novels, including The Bourne Enigma and The Bourne Initiative. His books have been translated into over twenty languages. He lives with his wife in New York City and Long Island.

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    • 1/5
      12 what every 12 year old boy thinks being a spy in a novel would be like.
    • 4/5
      Eric Van Lustbader is the author of The Testament is a book about conflicting religious societies who are locked in battle over a religious manuscript that would shake Christianity to its core. The protagonist is Bravo Shaw and he struggles throughout the book to decipher codes his late father left for him as he fights to save Christianity as it is today. The cover design of the book depicts a man running through an archaic building and is very appealing because it creates the impression of intrigue which the book is based around. I would recommend this book to anyone who is into novels with a great deal of action and intrigue.
    • 3/5
      Always on the lookout for books in the "theological thriller" genre, I picked this one up ready for the "roller-coaster of a read" promised by one reviewer somewhere. Well, that it was, because the pace was so fast, but to be brutally honest, I just didn't like it. It started out well, with lots of promise and kept me interested, but when it takes me four days to read a novel like this, there's a reason. I kept picking it up, reading it, and putting it back down. Normally books in this vein might last overnight if they're really good.brief synopsis; no spoilers:The story opens back in the 15th century in a monastery which is under attack. It seems that a group known as the Knights of St. Clement (a Christian group under the auspices of the Vatican) is an enemy of and sworn to destroy the group known as the Gnostic Observatines, an order based on the monasticism of St. Francis of Assisi. Flash forward to the modern day, where a father is expecting to reunite with his son. The father, Dexter Shaw, tries to convince his son Braverman (Bravo) to use his training as a medieval scholar and work with him; Bravo already has a job in Europe and wants no part of his dad's work life. One thing leads to another, Dexter is killed and leaves Bravo a safety deposit box full of miscellaneous items -- all which serve as a cyper to unravel to guide Bravo to a "cache of secrets" which had been in Dexter's keeping. It turns out that the medieval war is not over quite yet; another group wants to lay their hands on this cache of secrets for sinister reasons.Sounds right up my alley, but wait. I was looking for a good thriller -- you know...who's the traitor, that sort of thing but figured it all out very quickly. And I just hate when scholarly types become transformed into a lean, mean killing machine, out of keeping with their characters. The plot is a bit different than other books like this, and that made the book interesting. That was a plus here.Would I recommend it? Well, I'd say give it a try if you like this sort of thing, but having read tons of this genre, it's not at the top of my list.