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The Observer
“Gods in the Ruins,” which came out last spring, is the first in Msgr. Eric Barr’s Vatican Archives Thriller series.
As the book opens in 2003, an 8-year-old boy, Daniel Aziz, receives a gift from Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. The boy, the son of a Catholic archeologist, is surprised by the gift, but not nearly as surprised as he is years later when his father discovers a mysterious artifact in a tomb in Babylon, an artifact that is written in an ancient language – all except for a date in modern English that is said to be the day when the world will end – Nov. 1, All Saints Day in the liturgical calendar.
