''The Shroud Conspiracy'' is a 2017

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by John Heubusch, focuses on the reactions of science and religion concerning the

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The book's sequel, ''The Second Coming,'' was published in 2018.

Plot

Dr. Jon Bondurant is a forensic anthropologist and

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. When the Vatican invites him to lead an investigation into the authenticity of the purported burial cloth of Jesus Christ, he agrees. After a contentious debate, the Vatican allows the examination of one of the sacred relics in order to spite the skeptical Bondurant. While in the Vatican, Bondurant meets Domenika Josef, a devout Catholic and the Vatican’s media specialist assigned to keep an eye on him. She’s privy to a recently discovered ancient

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with revelations concerning the shroud. However, she is unknowingly part of a plan by forces intent on stealing DNA on the shroud. The consequences of the resulting attempt to

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Jesus is the subject of the sequel.

Publication

''The Shroud Conspiracy'' was published by Simon & Schuster on March 14, 2017.

Editions

* (hardcover, 2017)

References

External links

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