BY DAVID GIBBINS
THE JACK HOWARD SERIES
Atlantis
Crusader Gold
The Lost Tomb
The Tiger Warrior
The Mask of Troy
Atlantis God
Pharaoh
Pyramid
Testament
Inquisition
THE TOTAL WAR SERIES
Destroy Carthage
The Sword of Attila
About the Author
DAVID GIBBINS is the internationally bestselling author of ten Jack Howard novels, which have sold over three million copies worldwide and are published in thirty languages, and the Total War series of historical novels. He has worked in underwater archaeology all his professional life. After receiving a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, he taught archaeology in Britain and abroad, and is a world authority on ancient shipwrecks and sunken cities. He has led numerous expeditions to investigate underwater sites in the Mediterranean and around the world. He currently divides his time between fieldwork, England, and Canada. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Acknowledgments
Map
Epigraphs
Prologue
Part 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Part 2
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Part 3
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Part 4
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Epilogue
Author’s Note
By David Gibbins
About the Author
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
INQUISITION. Copyright © 2017 by David Gibbins. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Cover images: diver and wreck © Alan Gibbins; texture © Krasovski Dmitri/Shutterstock.com
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Gibbins, David J. L., author.
Title: Inquisition / David Gibbins.
Description: First U.S. edition. | New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2018. | Series: Jack Howard; 10
Identifiers: LCCN 2017052133 | ISBN 9781250080646 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781466892552 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Marine archaeologists—Fiction. | Quests (Expeditions)—Fiction. | Grail—Fiction. | GSAFD: Adventure fiction. | Historical fiction.
Classification: LCC PR6107.I225 I57 2018 | DDC 823/.92—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017052133
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Originally published in Great Britain by Headline Publishing Group
First U.S. Edition: April 2018