Description: For 3,000 years, the world's most dangerous treasure has been lost. Now, the code that reveals its hiding place is about to be broken, in this adrenaline-pumping thriller about a dangerous and powerful ancient mystery that is unearthed in postwar Greece. Martin's Press.
Brief description: Tom Harper, author of The Lost Temple, was born in 1977 and grew up in West Germany, Belgium, and America before returning to England to study history at Lincoln College, Oxford. His conclusion to the short story "Death by the Invisible Hand" was published in The Economist in 1997, and his novels have been translated into twelve languages. He lives in York with his family.