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OIL AND GOD:
The Provenance of the Monroe Gorget
Synopsis:
A rabbi, known for his wisdom and righteousness,
comes upon a story of Moses and Pharaoh written
upon an ancient artifact. But it is not the story
of Exodus. It’s an aberration of the biblical
tale that, if proven true, could jeopardize the
moral foundation of Judaism and the world's great
religions that followed. The rabbi kills to possess
it.
Natalie Adler, a savvy and sexy Los Angeles realtor,
and her boyfriend Elmo Bernize, an LAPD homicide
detective on the “outs” with his department, discover
that the ancient relic, inscribed with the lost
writings of Herodotus, reveals the exact site
of Mount Sinai, the mountain of God, whose real
location has been speculated upon for thousands
of years. Together with Arthur Dobbie, an adventurous
young millionaire, they begin a hazardous quest
to find the mountain. Their effort becomes mired
in the politics20of Middle East oil and water,
tests the limits of more than one man’s faith,
and presents a conundrum: Locating Sinai and its
hidden treasures will reveal one of the greatest
archeological discoveries of all time, but finding
it will also support an alternate version of the
Exodus story, turning biblical history on its
head.
Barry Pollack's OIL AND GOD takes readers from
ancient Egypt and Greece on a modern-day adventure
from the beaches and bedrooms of Los Angeles,
to the oil rich sands of Saudi Arabia, to historical
hilltop religious towns and secret desert military
bases in Israel. It is a story that questions
faith, history, and the Middle East status quo.
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