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The Painted Messiah combines a blistering action thriller occur the roads of Zurich and on the lakes and wooded slopes of Switzerland with a compulsive and convincing bank account of first hundred years Romano-Judean politics and the true reason for Pontius Pilate's condemnation and execution of Christ. A story persists that, following the "scourging", Pilate commanded that his sufferer be decorated from life. Someplace, the painting survives, really the only true image of Christ, granting the gift of everlasting life to whoever possesses it. Kate Kenyon, the prosperous young widow of the English aristocrat wiped out on a Swiss mountain, has an dependency to mortal risk. She feeds it by engaging in the equipped robbery of invaluable artifacts with her accomplice and enthusiast, Ethan Brand, a Tennessean who has a bookshop in Zurich. Their latest aim for is a invaluable "Byzantine" icon concealed in the tower of the chateau by Lake Lucerne. So far, they haven't had to photograph anyone. This time will be different. Thomas Malloy is a retired CIA man looking for his first lucrative freelance project. His chance includes a presidential opt to a rich but ailing televangelist. Malloy's task seems simple enough: pick up the preacher's recently obtained painting from a Zurich bank or investment company and obtain it to the airport. But once in Switzerland, Malloy's old friend, the enigmatic Contessa Claudia de Medici attempts to alert him off his objective. Sir Julian Corbeau can be an international lawbreaker holed up in Switzerland to avoid US extradition proceedings. He is also the sadistic mind of the present day Knights Templar. He previously the painting, and now he desperately desires it back as well concerning wreak a bloody revenge upon those who stole it. As the contenders vie for ownership, the bullets fly, the body count number rises, and the secrets of the family portrait steadily unfold. We understand how and just why it came to be painted and exactly how an object depicting the Light of the World could exert such a baleful and malignant affect on those who have got it.
