By Robert Ludlum
Colorado congressman Evan Kendrick is making an attempt to dwell out his time period of place of work quietly—when a political mole finds to the area Kendrick's inner most secret...that Kendrick used to be the nameless guy in Masqar, the fellow who courageously freed the hostage held within the American embassy through Arab terrorists; the unknown hero who played an act of outrageous bold then silently disappeared. Now, by surprise, Kendrick is a residing goal pursued by way of the terrorists he outwitted. including the attractive girl who as soon as stored his lifestyles, Kendrick enters a perilous enviornment the place the single foreign money is blood, the place apprehensive whispers converse of violence but to return and the place Kendrick's life—and the destiny of the loose world—may eventually relaxation within the strong fingers of a mysterious and lethal determine identified merely because the Mahdi.
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Weber believes it to have been nothing less than a world revolution, unparalleled in ancient history in its magnitude and extent . Paret writes that it began a great migration of the peoples of all Central and Southern Europe as well as Asia Minor ; it revolutionised the old world and created the basis for the new . Bachofer has called it a flood that determined the destiny of the world . We cannot, therefore, simply dismiss these events as invented myths or as historical fairy-tales for the comfort of the Athenians .
The expedition of the Atlantis people took place in the time of the great natural catastrophes . C. C. events took place which confirm the account of the Atlantis legend to an astonishing degree . " Apart from the contemporary inscriptions we have already discussed-which were described by Bilabel as " documents of the greatest historical value "-the results of numerous archaeological excavations help to throw light on this decisive epoch of European history, and enable us to reconstruct the course of events .
For nearly two hundred years they ruled Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean, which came to be known, after the leading tribe of the North people, as the Sea of the Philistines . In alliance with the Libyans they finally succeeded in the invasion of Egypt, when they established a king of military dictatorship . C. a Libyan, Sheshonk I, usurped the Egyptian royal throne . A comparison of these events, confirmed by contemporary inscriptions and extensive archxological evidence, and the statements of the Atlantis legend, show that all the statements of the legend agree with the historical facts .