The covenant of the flame

David Morrell

first published 1991 Warner Books, 1991 452 pages

In 1244, at the infamous fortress of Montségur in southwestern France, Christian Inquisitors massacred the last vestige of a heresy known as Mithraism, once the dominant religion of the Roman Empire. But was the heresy in fact destroyed? In today’s New York City, reporter Tess Drake discovers a mysterious altar in the apartment of a friend whose charred body was discovered in a nearby park. The altar (a version of it...

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The covenant of the flame edition · 1992 · Warner Books · 467 pages
The covenant of the flame edition · 1991 · Warner Books · 452 pages

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