by Sam Bourne · Harper · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007266067
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«The Last Testament» is the suspense novel by Sam Bourne, published by Harper in paperback (576 pages, in English).
In 2003, during the looting of the Baghdad Museum, a young Iraqi finds a clay tablet with an ancient secret. Years later, a bombing in Jerusalem triggers murders of archaeologists and historians. Maggie Costello, a peace negotiator, investigates a conspiracy between global politics and a biblical enigma: the truth could provoke a war.
First instalment of the Maggie Costello series. It is Sam Bourne's second novel, a pseudonym of Jonathan Freedland, after «The Righteous Men».
For readers of thrillers with biblical enigmas, political intrigue and historical background in the Middle East.
Jonathan Saul Freedland is a British journalist who writes a weekly column for The Guardian and presents the BBC Radio 4 contemporary history series The Long View. He was a noted public supporter of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He previously wrote for The Jewish Chronicle, until his resignation in September 2024 along with Hadley Freeman, David Aaronovitch, David Baddiel and others. Freedland also writes thrillers, mainly under the pseudonym Sam Bourne, and has written a play, Jews. In Their Own Words, performed in 2022 at the Royal Court Theatre, London.
