The Book of Names: A Novel
 

The Book of Names

by Jill Gregory, Karen Tintori

Within each generation, there are thirty-six righteous souls. Their lives hold the key to the fate of the world. Now someone wants them dead.
 
When a childhood tragedy comes back to haunt Professor David Shepherd, he finds himself in possession of knowledge that holds the world in a delicate balance. He uncovers the Book of Names---an ancient text originating with the... (read more)

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Megha M
  • Rated 5 stars

Excatly like the Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons except it deals with Jewism instead. The guy in it ( i just forgot his name) had a near death expierience...when he was just about dead he saw the typical light at the end of the tunnel and thousands of people chanting something. Now as a grown man he gets major headaches and then a name pops into his head. He's made a list of about 2000 names and by a chance event he googles these names finding that almost everyone of these people has...

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  • Rated 3.65625 stars
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  • Rated 3.75 stars
 

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  • Em ?

    em ? said:

    woa big words!
    whats this book bout?

    posted Sunday, June 1 2008
  • pinibea

    pinibea said:

    I enjoyed this book very much; could not put it away. However, there are a few not very credible sequences, where the heroes escape professional killers (favoured technique: aim at the adversary's groin). The end is also not what I would have chosen (mass killing). But all in all it was great entertainment; and one learns a thing or two.

    posted Thursday, October 11 2007
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