About The Book
ALTAR OF ASHES
A Legal Thriller by Bruce Westrate Two high school seniors slip into the misty backwoods for one last hunting trip before college. What they find instead changes their lives and the conscience of a nation.
Deep in the forest, beneath flickering torchlight and the sound of drums and chants, they witness the unthinkable: a ritual fire that should have been extinguished more than a century ago. A child bride. A funeral pyre. A living sacrifice.
The discovery ignites a murder investigation that quickly spirals into one of the most explosive trials in modern American history. What begins as a shocking crime becomes a national reckoning, about cultural tolerance, religious freedom, child protection, prejudice, ambition, and the fragile line between right and wrong.
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The Arab Bureau
Founded in 1916, the Arab Bureau was a small collection of British intelligence officers headquartered in Cairo and charged with the task of coordinating imperial intelligence activities in the Middle East. It is most often remembered for its flamboyant cast of characters, particularly T. E. Lawrence, and its role in instigating the Arab Revolt to break Turkish control over the Arab-speaking Middle East. From the beginning, however, the Bureau was vilified within imperial circles as a group of amateurish and incompetent pro-Arab dilettantes. And ever since, it has borne much of the blame for Britain’s terrible mishandling of Middle Eastern policy during and shortly after World War I.
Apotheosis
Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. This book is printed in black & white, Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Reprinted in 2022 with the help of original edition published long back 1615. As this book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages.
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Step into the misty backwoods of rural Indiana, November 1, 1996.
Chapter One: The Discovery
The November frost had settled thick over the Indiana woods when Tom Harper first noticed the smoke. Not the white-gray wisps of a campfire, but something darker, oilier—the kind of smoke that meant something wasn’t right.
He lowered his rifle and glanced over at Mike Peterson, who had frozen mid-step, one boot hovering above a fallen branch. They’d been hunting these woods for twenty years, knew every deer trail and hollow, but this…