Crescent Dawn - Dirk Pitt, Bk 21 Author:Clive Cussler In A.D. 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the middle of the North Sea. In the present day, a cluster of important mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions. Does anything tie them together? — NUMA director Dirk Pitt is about to find out,... more » as Roman artifacts discovered in Turkey and Israel unnervingly connect to the rise of a fundamentalist movement determined to restore the glory of the Ottoman Empire, and to the existence of a mysterious "manifest," lost long ago, which if discovered again . . . just may change the history of the world as we know it.« less
I normally am a big fan of Clive Cussler but this book was so boring and so slow reading I had to skip chapters just to get to the end. Thought I would never finish it.