James Becker - Chris Bronson Series (1-5)

The First Apostle (#1): An ancient inscription...

a dangerous secret?

An explosive debut thriller! Chris Bronson is devastated when his best friend?s wife? the woman he was secretly in love with?dies in a tragic accident. But when Bronson heads to Italy to console his friend, he finds the evidence of a break-in?and a strange Latin inscription on a stone above the fireplace.

To decipher the stone Bronson enlists the help of his ex-wife, an antiques expert, sending them on a treacherous path of clues across Europe leading to a truth so dangerous it could destroy the very foundations of the Christian faith?

The Moses Stone (#2): An ancient code.
A sinister secret.
A deadly chase for the truth...

In Morocco, an English couple discovers a clay tablet covered in ancient writing. One day later, they are dead.

Called to North Africa to investigate, detective Chris Bronson follows a trail of clues that plunge him into a mystery that has gone unsolved since biblical times. For the stone he must find is older and far more dangerous than he could ever have imagined...

The Messiah Secret (#3) : In a crumbling mansion, deep in the English countryside, a wooden crate has been discovered, nailed shut and covered in dust. Deep inside it a dozen sealed pottery jars lie packed in straw. Hidden in one jar an ancient scroll, inscribed in Hebrew, details the final resting place of the Messiah. Is the scroll referring to the Christian Messiah? And could. as the scroll suggests, his body still be entombed in a remote cave high in the Himalayas? There is only one way to find out. As Chris Bronson and Angela Lewis race to uncover one of the greatest mysteries of all time, it soon becomes clear that they're in far greater danger than they ever thought possible.

The Nosferatu Scroll (#4): Bohemia, 1741: A noble lady is laid to rest-with her heart cut out and a covering of heavy stones. Whatever it takes to keep her from rising from the grave...

Venice, 2010: While on a much-needed vacation, Chris Bronson and Angela Lewis discover a desecrated tomb containing a female skeleton and a diary that is centuries old. Scribbled in Latin, the pages tell of a scroll that holds the key to answering an ancient secret. Soon, the bodies of young women begin surfacing, all killed in a ritual manner. When Angela vanishes, Bronson is drawn into the hunt for a demented murderer who torments his prey on the eerie Isle of the Dead- and into a deadly conspiracy hundreds of years in the making.

Echo of the Reich (#5): A deadly weapon uncovered...
A decades-old conspiracy...
A race to save a city...

Berlin, 1936: When African-American Jesse Owens wins four gold medals in the Olympic Games, Hitler refuses to place the medals around Owens’s neck and vows to develop a means of wiping “inferior” races from the earth....

London, 2012: Chris Bronson is ordered to infiltrate a group of anarchists who plan to disrupt the Olympic Games with destruction and violence. When Bronson’s cover is blown, the police call off the operation. But Bronson is convinced that there’s something more sinister at play. On the run from both the police and the militant anarchists, Bronson soon finds himself immersed in a long-buried secret surrounding a Nazi weapon, and a deadly revenge plot that he must stop before it’s too late....

The Lost Testament (#6): A single sheet of parchment, with the power to bring down an emperor and raze an empire. For seventeen centuries the scroll lay hidden away in the vast Vatican archives, guarded by a select, ruthless few who knew of its destructive potential—and would swiftly kill to contain its secrets.

When the parchment mysteriously turns up in the stall of a murdered Cairo market trader, authorities contact the British for assistance in identifying the document. Police detective Chris Bronson and historian Angela Lewis arrive in Egypt to take on the case, but quickly find themselves as targets, pursued by assassins. Stalked across North Africa and Europe, Chris and Angela must decipher the parchment’s tantalizing message before their time runs out.

Genre: Mystery/Thriller