Different Springs
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A theft followed by murderous ambushes in Morocco; a former mullah awakened in the predawn darkness by the voice of his long dead wife in Iran; a successful trial lawyer dead of an apparent heart attack and a police captain found shot to death in New Orleans. Attorney Owen Macauley is about to find himself at the center of the vortex created by these events, a place where two families and their histories are about to be entwined, and where his own past will have to be confronted as it becomes linked to theirs. For a thousand years the Al Katib family has survived wars, strife and religious bigotry while carefully guarding its founding secret, a work of genius from eleventh century Spain that has allowed its Jewish, Christian and Muslim branches to live in harmony - but quietly, because its secret would have provided religious fanatics with grounds to execute all its members.In its over 200 years in New Orleans the Pareeja family has had to battle vicious racism and cultural animosity for its survival - struggles which took their toll on all involved, ennobling some while corrupting others.And now Owen Macauley needs to find what was stolen from the Al Katibs to defend Huey Pareeja, jailed and charged with the murder of the police captain, while Zahra Al Katib desperately needs its return for very personal reasons. Former mullah Hosain Neyrizi seeks it in hopes that it may finally take him beyond the loss of his wife and faith, but the most extreme fundamentalist Ayatollah in Iran wants it destroyed.And for undisclosed reasons the Vatican has ordered Monsignor Gene G. Rose, still mourning the death of his estranged Jewish father, to find it, while Tulane Professor and Holocaust survivor Gilda Rabinowieczki seeks it as the crowning achievement of an otherwise lackluster career and a buffer against the memories she can no longer suppress.All will find that their quest has profound and unexpected consequences.Its existence no longer a secret, the thousa
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