“The man who saved Christianity” – grateful words spoken by millions after Dr. Jonathan Weber revealed the truth about an archaeological dig two years ago. But Jon isn’t interested in the hype. He’s far more concerned with how people are being misled by prophecy enthusiasts and their bizarre end-times scenarios, particularly the wrong-headed predictions of his nemesis, Melvin Morris Merton.

 

Still, Jon is a professor, not a crusader. He’s happy with his life of teaching (Harvard and Hebrew University), writing (a best-selling “biography” of Jesus), and research (Near East studies). He’s also a newlywed, deeply in love with his brilliant and beautiful wife, Shannon. Not even an annoying lawsuit from Merton can shake his world. But Joshua Ben-Yosef can. This Israeli speaks a dozen languages – fluently and without accent. His words ripple with wisdom and authority, and crowds follow him, enthralled. He heals the sick, gives sight to the blind, casts out demons, and even raises the dead.

Once again, Jon is drawn into a hot pursuit of the truth that at times casts him into the very lonely, very dangerous role of one man against the world. Review the evidence, join the dig near Nazareth that uncovers a first-century mosaic, and find out if three lines of Hebrew could change the course of history.

The most talked-about international bestseller of the year

!

Tightly paced and atmospheric,

The Secret Supper

is a dazzling historical thriller with a unique vision of both Leonardo da Vinci’s genius and his masterpiece—which you will never look at in the same way again.

Milan, 1497: Leonardo is completing

The Last Supper

. Pope Alexander VI is determined to execute him after realizing that the painting contains clues to a baffling and blasphemous message that he is driven to decode. The Holy Grail and the Euchristic Bread are missing, there is no meat on the table, and the apostles, shockingly, are portraits of well-known heretics and none of them are depicted with halos. And why has the artist painted himself into the scene with his back turned toward Jesus? The clues to Leonardo’s greatest puzzle are right before your eyes….

Javier Sierra

lives in Malaga on the Costa del Sol, Spain. He has written on the

secrets of the Templars, the mystical nun Maria Jesus of Agreda

and the

enigmas of lost civilizations

. All of his novels have a “secret” common purpose: to solve historical mysteries based on real documentation and extensive field research. A bestseller throughout the Spanish-speaking world,

The Secret Supper

is now being published in thirty-five countries.

Simon Jones’s

Broadway credits include:

The Real Thing, Benefactors, The School for Scandal, The Herbal Bed

, and

Waiting in the Wings

(Outer Critics Circle nominee). Off-Broadway credits include:

Woman in Mind, Terra Nova, Privates On Parade

(Drama Desk nominee). Film and TV highlights;

Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, The Devil’s Own, Brideshead Revisited, PBS’s Liberty

and

HBO’s Oz.