I was very excited to read this book after reading the description. When an aged scholar is found mysteriously dead in his hotel room, Thomas Noronha, expert cryptographer and professor of history, is called upon to finish the man's unresolved investigation. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Ensnared by the first page I wanted to drive around just to listen.

The chief mystery is "Who really was Columbus?" Instead of contributing to the plot, it ended up detracting from it.

Es escritor y periodista y fue director de Información de RTP, la televisión pública de Portugal. The story would have been interesting if the author didnt keep on describing women as so many male writers do. His overall sales are above one million books, astonishing figures considering Portugal’s tiny market. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Comme dans tous ses ouvrages, J.R Dos Santos fait un très gros travail de recherche pour écrire son enquête policière.

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Most Portuguese are aware today's accepted version of Columbus' origins and mission is full of fallacies and forgeries. The historical detail was too overwhelming and distracting, especially for those of us who like to actually retain what they read. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. José Rodrigues dos Santos nació en Mozambique en 1964. Fictional romance mixed with historic facts, involving a seductive professor, who in the pursuit of the true origins of Columbus gets involved in exciting moments with a Swedish goddess, betraying his wife, and other people on the way, with a dramatic ending in London!

Unfortunately, that's about all I can say on the plus side. Codex 632: The Secret of Christopher Columbus: A Novel.

Thomas Noronha is a history scholar teaching a course in ancient languages and cryptography at Lisbon University when he approached by a mysterious New York foundation to thoroughly research all aspects of the discovery of Brazil. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. [It’s possible Christopher Columbus was not Genovese; he was actually a Portuguese nobleman, last name Colonna, with some Italian blood and probably also some secret Jewish blood, and he sailed for Spain to the New World as part of a plot to distract them from the real riches in the Indies, which was the Portuguese throne’s primary interest. Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2015, Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2014. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon.

great idea and it's evident that the author has done an extensive research in the subject, but having an interesting conspiracy theory on its own isn't enough to make a good fiction book! Clearly the author identifies himself with the main character and tells us all his dirtiest sexual desires, while this book was supposed to be about cracking the code and adventure. Please try again.

José Rodrigues dos Santos is the bestselling novelist in Portugal.

Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published Instead of contributing to the plot, it ended up detracting from it. Previous page of related Sponsored Products, “In the tradition of such great books as 'AI' and 'I, Robot' this story by Vadim Babenko is that and so much more” - Goodreads Reviewer, Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2011. Please try again. In the book, after exhaustive discussion on Columbus' identity it ends with the statement that the chief piece of evidence is now missing. Refresh and try again. Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2012, I could not get into this book. Long story short, it was a pitiful imitation of Dan Brown. ", Okay, I’m going to try to explain something here that I’m not sure how to explain.