by Gemma Nieto · Editorial Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788484608042
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«El alfabeto sagrado» is the action and mystery novel by Gemma Nieto, published by Editorial Planeta in hardcover (544 pages, in Spanish).
The theft of a Mandaean vessel in Iraq triggers an investigation by Victor Lavine and orientalist Adrea Jacobs that takes them from Baghdad to Cambridge, an Egyptian monastery and Jerusalem. They seek to decipher the abagada, a forgotten Gnostic alphabet, in an adventure about the power of words that still connects with the Mandaean sect.
It is number 1 of the TH Novela collection. First edition, first printing, published in 2009 in Barcelona.
For readers of contemporary fiction seeking action, historical mysteries and ancient religions.
