The Omega Factor av Steve Berry

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<p><b>The Ghent Altarpiece is the most violated work of art in the world. Thirteen times it has been vandalized, dismantled, or stolen. Why? What secrets does it hold? </b><br><br>Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations'' Cultural Liaison and Investigative Office (CLIO). Nick''s job is to protect the world''s cultural artifacts-anything and everything from countless lesser-known objects to national treasures. <br><br>When Nick travels to Belgium for a visit with a woman from his past, he unwittingly stumbles on the trail of a legendary panel from the Ghent Altarpiece, stolen in 1934 under cover of night and never seen since. Soon Nick is plunged into a bitter conflict, one that has been simmering for nearly two thousand years. On one side is the Maidens of Saint-Michael, <i>les Vautours, </i>Vultures, a secret order of nuns and the guardians of a great truth. Pitted against them is the Vatican, which has wanted for centuries to both find and possess wh