The Scroll

By Donald Nassr

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0964246325
• ISBN13: 9780964246324
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Icam Pub Co
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.5" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Before The Da Vinci Code and Better

Dr. Nassr has written an extremely colorful and fast-paced novel of theological and political intrigue. Those who dismiss this modern pulp fiction with adjectives like "far-fetched" or "implausible" amuse me almost as much as the novel itself, only I am laughing with the novel, and at the reviews. What do you expect from an espionage thriller? If it doesn't have a good element of comic book super heroics in it, what, may I ask, is the point? And this one does. The heroine is a full-blooded female James Bond, begging to be portrayed on film by Angelina Jolie. What a far cry from the limp cipher of a protagonist in Dan Brown's novels! Speaking of which, this earlier novel draws upon the same modern apocryphal lore of Jesus surviving the cross, marrying Mary Magdalene and hitch-hiking to France to beget children, leading up to the Merovingian Dynasty, the Templars, the Cathars, yada yada yada. There is even the weirdo Catholic zealot assiassin. Did Brown read this book before writing his? If he did, it was a step down.

Like riding a bike on the beach during sunset in China.

(The one-line summary means, it was challenging but fun, very creative) The story is vividly imaginative. Juda adds some diversity in the wide range of characters. The on-location feeling that is given is outstanding. Futhermore, I deeply believe that Nassr did alot of 'homework' with this project, being so accurate with even the littlest details. Pablo Ringo,