The Prophetess [antikvár]

Prologue She knew they were following her. But there was no time to hide. Catherine was in a race against time. She had to get to the seventh scroll before the others did - the scroll which contained the formula for unlocking the most powerful ancient secrets. A priceless document for which so many had risked their lives, even to the point of death. When Catherine felt the 747 shudder, she looked out of the window at the cloud cover below, and decided she was somewhere over New York. Faster, she silently urged the aircraft. Go faster, faster A magazine lay in her lap, dated December 1999. The headline on the cover read: ís the world about to end? We face the new millennium, Catherine thought. Was she also facing her own personal Armageddon? She certainly hadn't thought so three weeks ago, when she had been minding her own business, an archaeol-ogist following the trail of an ancient legend - until she had accidentally stumbled upon an astounding