The Omega Factor - Steve Berry

The Omega Factor

By Steve Berry

  • Release Date: 2022-06-07
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Score: 4
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From 724 Ratings

Description

"Dan Brown fans will want to check this one out" (Publishers Weekly): The Ghent Altarpiece is the most violated work of art in the world. Thirteen times it has been vandalized, dismantled, or stolen. Why? What secrets does it hold?  
 
Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations’ Cultural Liaison and Investigative Office (CLIO). Nick’s job is to protect the world’s cultural artifacts—anything and everything from countless lesser-known objects to national treasures. 

When Nick travels to Belgium for a visit with a woman from his past, he unwittingly stumbles on the trail of a legendary panel from the Ghent Altarpiece, stolen in 1934 under cover of night and never seen since. Soon Nick is plunged into a bitter conflict, one that has been simmering for nearly two thousand years. On one side is the Maidens of Saint-Michael, les Vautours—the Vultures—a secret order of nuns and the guardians of a great truth. Pitted against them is the Vatican, which has wanted for centuries to both find and possess what the nuns guard. Because of Nick the maidens have finally been exposed, their secret placed in dire jeopardy—a vulnerability that the Vatican swiftly moves to exploit utilizing an ambitious cardinal and a corrupt archbishop, both with agendas of their own.  

From the tranquil canals of Ghent, to the towering bastions of Carcassonne, and finally into an ancient abbey high in the French Pyrenees, Nick Lee must confront a modern-day religious crusade intent on eliminating a shocking truth from humanity’s past. Success or failure—life and death—all turn on the Omega Factor.

Reviews

  • Best Novel Yet

    5
    By Samnite100
    Keep them coming Mr. Berry, I have read ALL your novels and this was by far the best learning by reading…inspiring!
  • Omega factor

    5
    By Bee britches
    I really enjoyed this book. It is well written, and hold your attention and indeed it can’t work mini of the good books I have read, including the da Vinci code. Thanks I’ll keep up with Nick and your coming books, James, Roy, Appleton, Junior, MD
  • I love Steve Berry…but not this one

    2
    By Seanmtx
    Poor plot, bad premise of climax, and generally bad writing. The story drolled on and while I wanted to quit, I finished it…like a bad movie where you just want to know how it ends. No idea how there are as many good reviews on this as there are…this book was horrible.
  • Enjoyed the new characters

    5
    By prc1122
    Looking forward to future stories
  • Difficult

    3
    By K508
    Not the usual historical novel from Steve Berry, very difficult staying attentive to the story line.
  • Great new character

    5
    By George in Virginia
    I had grown a tad weary of Cotton Malone so a great change of pace in the character development while preserving the historical focus
  • Omega factor

    5
    By todd turley
    Another great Steve berry and I pro-ordered the next What happened to another cotton Malone/?
  • Steve has done better.

    3
    By glchris
    I love Steve Berry, but this one a little dry. Not one of his best.
  • Appropriate first week

    3
    By danmatras
    Not one of Mr. Berry’s best works. I thought it was confusing and much too long.
  • Dissatisfied

    1
    By svpops
    Would only download the first few chapters.