The lost goddess
Subtitle: a novel
By: Tom Knox
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780670023134
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology); Fiction
Description: In the silent caves beneath France, young archaeologist Julia Kerrigan unearths an ancient skull-with a hole bored through the forehead. After she reveals her discovery, her mentor is brutally murdered. Deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia, photographer Jake Thurby is offered a mysterious assignment by a beautiful Cambodian lawyer who is investigating finds at the two-thousand-year-old Plain of Jars-finds that shadowy forces want kept secret.