The Carswell Covenant

This thriller combines Egyptian history and archaeology, adventure, and mystery with real-life and fictional characters in a manner that will challenge the reader to separate what's fact from fiction.

In 1335 BC, after his final pleading with pharaoh, Moses is given a covenant to the Holy Land. In 1922, my grandfather, real-life University of Pennsylvania archaeologist Clarence Fisher, finds a document in King Tut's tomb that could change the course of history. In 2001, a programmer at Carswell Bible College finds an overlooked passage in the Dead Sea Scrolls that mentions pharaoh's covenant, later called the Carswell Covenant, that also could change the course of history.

In 2001, I found a mention of my long-deceased archaeologist grandfather, Clarence Fisher, in a novel. This led my brother and me, both Penn graduates, along with a beautiful doctoral candidate at Penn, to a 16-day vacation in Egypt in 2002. But our trip, along with a coded street map from my grandfather, triggered a terrifying series of events. Involving Egyptian terrorists and the Mossad, the lives of my brother, the Penn archaeologist, and me, were threatened. But important truths were revealed, about my grandfather, King Tut, the Pharaoh of the Exodus, and even the Ark of the Covenant.

From Egypt and Jerusalem, in both Old Testament times and the 1920s and 1940s, through a small college in Georgia today, through the streets of Cairo and a city that is a hotbed of terrorist activity, through the hills of the Valley of the Kings, and onto a luxury cruise boat riddled with danger, The Carswell Covenant follows us through unexpected dangers and unnerving coincidences.