{"product_id":"book-2ey0","title":"The Name of the Thorn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA THOUSAND-YEAR-OLD SECRET. A RELIC THAT COULD REWRITE THE HISTORY OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarch 2019, suburbs of Philadelphia. Around a table set with the China plates from his childhood, Ugo, who has come from Istria to visit American cousins he has never met, thinks he is attending a simple family reunion. He leaves with much more: a hidden family name, a secret buried since the First World War, and a phrase scribbled by his grandfather that will forever haunt him—\u003cem\u003eEx Oriente lux, ex Occidente lex\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Dalmatia in 1075 to the walls of the besieged Holy Land in 1291, from a monastery submerged in an Istrian lake to a hidden door behind St. Peter's Square, a single relic traverses nine centuries of history: a thorn, torn from a crown more precious than all the treasures of Antiquity, passed down, hidden, coveted—and never found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil a fire ravaged Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in April 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA few months later, thousands of kilometers away, in a secret laboratory on the outskirts of Wuhan, a high-ranking Chinese official shouted an order that no one would dare repeat: the spread must be stopped, immediately.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoincidence? Ugo no longer believes it. Not after the Vatican.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween a Vatican confraternity guarding a nine-century-old secret and an organization that will stop at nothing to seize the relic, Ugo and his rediscovered cousins must unravel a family lie passed down through four generations—before the entire world pays the price.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause if the legend is true, the Thorn was never just a treasure. It is a weapon. And someone, somewhere, has just made it talk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Name of the Thorn weaves a gripping thriller across 950 years of history—Istria, the Holy Land, the Vatican, Paris, Philadelphia, Wuhan—where each family revelation opens a door more dizzying than the last. A novel for all those who, after Dan Brown, thought they had already read everything about the secrets that History prefers to keep hidden.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67721073295664,"sku":"BD2ey0","price":11.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/2ey0-Square-cover.png?v=1788374149","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-2ey0","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}