Winner: 2001 Richard Webster $5,000 Popular Fiction Award.

Action thriller, 496 pages.

“Heart-stopping suspense... a stunning award-winning fiction debut.”

Backpacking in the bleak but hauntingly beautiful Bolivian highlands, Daliah, a young Israeli, is given a mysterious tapestry.

But others want the tapestry for their own dark ends and will stop at nothing to possess it. For the tapestry, and the route of a perilous journey woven into it by an Incan girl fleeing the conquerer Pizarro, holds not only the answer to the origins of humanity itself but the power to control the world.

Page-turning action, gripping historical detail, exotic settings and compelling explanations make this a major new action thriller.