Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Chapter 1 - RESIDENCE OF BALTHASAR HANDWURZ Chapter 2 - ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN EL GLOBO Chapter 3 - KAYN Chapter 4 - HEADQUARTERS OF KAYN INDUSTRIES Chapter 5 - HOTEL LE MERIDIEN Chapter 6 - HEADQUARTERS OF KAYN INDUSTRIES Chapter 7 - EDITORIAL OFFICES OF EL GLOBO Chapter 8 - ANDREA OTERO’S APARTMENT Chapter 9 - RELICS CRYPT Chapter 10 - EXCERPT FROM RAYMOND KAYN: THE UNAUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY Chapter 11 - ON BOARD THE BEHEMOTH Chapter 12 - OUTSIDE THE OFFICES OF NETCATCH Chapter 13 - ON BOARD THE BEHEMOTH Chapter 14 - COHEN FAMILY HIDEOUT Chapter 15 - ON BOARD THE BEHEMOTH Chapter 16 - ABOARD THE BEHEMOTH Chapter 17 - ABOARD THE BEHEMOTH Chapter 18 - THE RED SEA Chapter 19 - ANDREA AND FOWLER Chapter 20 - TAHIR IBN FARIS’S APARTMENT Chapter 21 - ABOARD THE BEHEMOTH Chapter 22 - OFFICES OF NETCATCH Chapter 23 - ABOARD THE BEHEMOTH Chapter 24 - ON BOARD THE BEHEMOTH Chapter 25 - SOMEWHERE IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA Chapter 26 - ON THE WAY TO THE EXCAVATION Chapter 27 - MP3 File Recovered by the Jordanian Desert Police from Andrea ... Chapter 28 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 29 - HUQAN Chapter 30 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 31 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 32 - 2,700 FEET WEST OF THE EXCAVATION Chapter 33 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 34 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 35 - KAYN Chapter 36 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 37 - Some Facts about the Arc of the Covenant, Transcribed from the ... Chapter 38 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 39 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 40 - SOMEWHERE IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA Chapter 41 - INSIDE THE SOLDIERS’ TENT, FIVE MINUTES BEFORE Chapter 42 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 43 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 44 - FOWLER AND HAREL Chapter 45 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 46 - Al Qaeda Training Manual Found By Scotland Yard in a Hideout Pages ... Chapter 47 - WASHINGTON SUBURB Chapter 48 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 49 - ORVILLE WATSON’S SAFE HOUSE Chapter 50 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 51 - ORVILLE WATSON’S SAFE HOUSE Chapter 52 - ORVILLE WATSON’S SAFE HOUSE Chapter 53 - SOMEWHERE IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA Chapter 54 - HUQAN Chapter 55 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 56 - ELLIS ISLAND, NEW YORK Chapter 57 - KAYN Chapter 58 - ANDREA AND DOC Chapter 59 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 60 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 61 - MP3 File Recovered by the Jordanian Desert Police from Andrea ... Chapter 62 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 63 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 64 - Document Recovered from the e-mail Account of Kharouf Waadi, used ... Chapter 65 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 66 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 67 - LOWER EAST SIDE Chapter 68 - Josef Cohen’s Letter to His Son, Yudel Chapter 69 - HUQAN Chapter 70 - KAYN TOWER Chapter 71 - MP3 File Recovered by the Jordanian Desert Police from Andrea ... Chapter 72 - KAYN TOWER Chapter 73 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 74 - KAYN TOWER Chapter 75 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 76 - KAYN TOWER Chapter 77 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 78 - INSIDE THE DINING TENT, FIFTY-THREE SECONDS BEFORE Chapter 79 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 80 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 81 - RELICS CRYPT Chapter 82 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 83 - AL-QAHIRA METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE Chapter 84 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 85 - Transcript of the communication between the crew of the Behemoth ... Chapter 86 - HUQAN Chapter 87 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 88 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 89 - AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE CANYON, TEN MINUTES BEFORE Chapter 90 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 91 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 92 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 93 - INSIDE THE CAVE, FOURTEEN MINUTES EARLIER Chapter 94 - THE EXCAVATION Chapter 95 - ON THE ROAD TO AQABA Chapter 96 - EPILOGUE Acknowledgements Contract with God JUAN GOMEZ JURADO Orion www.orionbooks.co.uk First published in Great Britain in 2009 by Orion Books, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group Ltd Orion House, 5 Upper St Martin’s Lane, London WC2H 9EA © Juan Gómez-Jurado 2007 English translation © A.V. Lebrón 2009 The right of Juan Gómez-Jurado to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. ‘How to Create an Enemy’ from Faces of the Enemy by Sam Keen reproduced with the kind permission of the author. All rights reserved. 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