In 1860 Edouard-Scott de Martinville invented the phonautograph, a device that, seventeen years before Edison invented the phonograph, can burn the memory of a voice. It's the first known recording of a human voice. This is at least of which was believed until the Cardinal di Lupo, senior dignitary in the Vatican hierarchy, claims that the oldest records exist. Thus he postulates the existence of "fossil sounds" that would be etched in the grooves of ancient vases. He even convinced that there is a record of the word of Christ. This would be in a vase dating from the 1st century AD and named the vase of Bamberg. But, of course, there begins the fiction. The Cardinal will load his protégé, John Robert Quantius, recover this vase to send it to the Vatican where, thanks to a sophisticated technological device, a team consisting in the greatest secrecy, will be able to read the word of Christ . This is a thriller that knows how to combine action and suspense scholarship. As part of the lineage of the Da Vinci Code, the author (or I should say the authors, since this appears to be a pseudonym concealing two) gives us here a novel resulted both from the style point of view from the point of view of its quality documentary. I only said that the reading of certain passages is not always easy when it deals with philosophy, history of religions or hermeneutics. This is the price to pay to go after this exciting thriller to remain that appears as the first volume of a series which John Robert Quantius is expected to become the hero. To discover.
