Steve Berry - Az Omega-faktor

The Ghent altarpiece is the work of art that has suffered the most violence in the world. It was vandalized, taken apart or stolen thirteen times.
Why? What kind of secrets does it hide?

Nick Lee, a UNESCO investigator, works for the United Nations Cultural Liaison and Investigation Office (CLIO). Nick's job is to protect the world's cultural works - from countless lesser-known objects to national treasures. When Nick travels to Belgium to visit a woman from his past, he unknowingly stumbles upon the twelfth panel of the Ghent altarpiece, which was stolen under the cover of night in 1934 and has not been seen since.
Nick soon finds himself embroiled in a bitter conflict that has been raging for almost two thousand years. On one side are the Virgins of St. Michael, Les Vautours, the Vultures, a secret order of nuns, and the Guardians of the Great Truth. Opposing them is the Vatican, which has wanted to find and own what the nuns have been guarding for centuries. Because of Nick, the virgins are finally exposed, their secret is in danger - the Vatican hastily moves to take advantage of their vulnerability through an ambitious cardinal and a corrupt archbishop, who both want to bake their own steak.
From the peaceful canals of Ghent to the towering ramparts of Carcassonne to an ancient abbey high in the French Pyrenees, Nick Lee must confront a modern-day religious crusade determined to erase a shocking truth from humanity's past. Success or failure - life and death - everything depends on the Omega factor.

Steve Berry New York Times #1 bestselling author, author of sixteen Cotton Malone novels, five separate thrillers, and numerous smaller works. His books have been printed in over twenty-five million copies and have been translated into over forty languages. Together with his wife, Elizabeth, he runs History Matters, an organization dedicated to the preservation of historical values. He is a retired member of the Advisory Board of the Smithsonian Libraries, a founding member and former co-president of the International Society of Thriller Writers.