The story revolves around two plots, which are connected although they may seem unrelated at first. Archaeologist cum biblical scholar Shawn Doughtry and his molecular biologist wife Sana are in Cairo. Shawn is head of the Department of Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His interest in the Arts and all things antique leads him to acquire an ancient book. Shawn retrieves a letter from between the leather cover of the book; it talks of an ossuary containing the remains of the Virgin Mary, which may be buried under the St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Shawn shares the news with Sana, justifiably excited at this grand find, knowing that it would cause ripples in the Catholic world! Shawn is typically on an adrenaline high; go getting and hurried, he likes to take charge of things and have his way, being career obsessed, he believes he’s hit the jackpot after the discovery of the ancient codex he bought at the souk. He plans on making the journey to Rome, to unearth the ossuary and see what remains in it after two thousand years!
Then there’s Robin Cook’s favorite medical practitioner Dr. Jack Stapleton, who is also a pathologist - likes to kill time engrossed in work along with wife Laurie Montgomery, with whom he has co-partnered in several over six books. He uses his work to seek a way to deal with his young son’s cancer. Whilst conducting an autopsy on a young college student, who lost her life thanks to some trending alternative therapy - the chiropractor, treating her tore the lining of her vertebral arteries whilst manipulating her cervical spine. Jack decides he must address the issue of patients stepping outside the realm of traditional medical science and seeking help from healers and dubious gurus. Will his zeal and fervor put an end to an era of quacks or will it die on seeing the light of day?
Jack and Shawn haven’t met for thirty years, but share a camaraderie that has lasted these past decades, it includes another former classmate James O’Rourke, now Cardinal O’Rourke, Bishop of the Archdiocese of New York. Shawn obviously cannot wait to share this piece of news with both the men, especially James. The Cardinal, when he is told of the ossuary, is concerned that he may jeopardize his future in the Church with this seemingly blasphemous discovery, and asks Jack to intervene.
However, determined to see the ossuary out of the Basilica, Shawn and Sana are able to retrieve it and mail it to New York, as the personal property of the Cardinal. O’Rourke is racing against time to stop his friend Shawn from making his finds public, for the entire world believes that the Virgin Mary was taken up into Heaven, in Divine Ascension, like Christ. Written a few years after the famed Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, which truly shook the Catholic world with its outrageous and blasphemous claims, Intervention doesn’t even come close. However, Cook has tried to marry science, religion and medicine as best as he could, not quite the racy nail biter compared to his other works, but an okay read.
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Then there’s Robin Cook’s favorite medical practitioner Dr. Jack Stapleton, who is also a pathologist - likes to kill time engrossed in work along with wife Laurie Montgomery, with whom he has co-partnered in several over six books. He uses his work to seek a way to deal with his young son’s cancer. Whilst conducting an autopsy on a young college student, who lost her life thanks to some trending alternative therapy - the chiropractor, treating her tore the lining of her vertebral arteries whilst manipulating her cervical spine. Jack decides he must address the issue of patients stepping outside the realm of traditional medical science and seeking help from healers and dubious gurus. Will his zeal and fervor put an end to an era of quacks or will it die on seeing the light of day?
Jack and Shawn haven’t met for thirty years, but share a camaraderie that has lasted these past decades, it includes another former classmate James O’Rourke, now Cardinal O’Rourke, Bishop of the Archdiocese of New York. Shawn obviously cannot wait to share this piece of news with both the men, especially James. The Cardinal, when he is told of the ossuary, is concerned that he may jeopardize his future in the Church with this seemingly blasphemous discovery, and asks Jack to intervene.
However, determined to see the ossuary out of the Basilica, Shawn and Sana are able to retrieve it and mail it to New York, as the personal property of the Cardinal. O’Rourke is racing against time to stop his friend Shawn from making his finds public, for the entire world believes that the Virgin Mary was taken up into Heaven, in Divine Ascension, like Christ. Written a few years after the famed Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, which truly shook the Catholic world with its outrageous and blasphemous claims, Intervention doesn’t even come close. However, Cook has tried to marry science, religion and medicine as best as he could, not quite the racy nail biter compared to his other works, but an okay read.
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