Pegasus Book Club

This is a heartwarming story about the ups and downs in the life of Rick Dockery—a third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns.

In a deciding game, Rick manages to successfully orchestrate the downfall of his team from a 17-point lead. In that process Browns loses the game, Rick gets mashed up, ends up in the hospital, and becomes a national laughing stock and villain. He is dropped from the team.

Rick’s chances of joining another team in the US become zero as nobody wants him, but his agent finally finds a team that would accept him—Panthers of Parma of Italy. Italians play American football and each team can have one or two American players. Only the Americans are paid; the Italians play because they are passionate about the game. Most players have full-time jobs. The Panthers have a judge, an airline pilot, an engineer, several truck-drivers, two restaurant owners, a dentists, two stonemasons, a couple of auto mechanics, and so on.

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The peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians are entering the final phases. A series of seemingly random murders escalates the tension between the two sides and threatens to derail the peace process.

Washington recalls the ace negotiator and mediator Maggie Costello to set things right. But Maggie is troubled by her past—her mistake that caused her previous assignment to fall apart. He is also discouraged by her husband. But Maggie decides to return from her exile and becomes a part of the peace talks.

When she starts work, she finds that the solution to the peace process lies in the contents of a 4000 year old clay tablet that is looted from the Bagdad Museum of Antiquities. She also discovers that the killings are not random but related and all are tied to the tablet.

Soon Maggie with the help of Uri Guttuman—son of the murdered archaeologist Shimon Guttman—sets out to find the clay tablet, with their adversaries watching their every move, killing everybody they plan to meet.

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Armed mercenaries disguised as monks butcher hundreds of people during a crowded service in Germany. The killers did not anything valuable, except the bones of one of the three magi who paid homage to infant Jesus. Days later the bones of other magi are also looted with equal bloodshed from Milan.

Vatican asks and gets the help of the SIGMA force—an elite team of scientific and special forces operatives. The Sigma team with the assistance of Monsignor Vigor Verona and his niece Lieutenant Rachel Verona of Rome’s carabinieri sets out to solve the deadly mystery behind the looted bones and the killings. They are against one of most powerful and deadly group of people—The Dragon Court—who will not stop until they get what they want.

Solving the mystery and breaking the cryptic codes and puzzles take the Sigma team to the sites of the Seven Wonders of the World. They are closely followed by the assassins of the Dragon Court, who are prepared do anything to get the secret treasure.

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A 4000 year old document—The Seventh Scroll—contains the location of the crypt of the Pharaoh Mamose. Egyptologist Royan Al Simma and her husband Duraid are trying to decode the cryptic messages of the scroll that will reveal them the location of the Pharaoh’s crypt.

But they are not alone in the search. There are a group of cruel and unscrupulous people who will wipe out everything that stands between them and the treasures.

Druaid is brutally murdered and their house is burned and the attackers take the scroll also with them. Left with nothing but her memory, Royan seeks the help of one of Druaid’s friends—Sir Nicholas Quenton Harper—a daring man who will stake his fortune and his life to join her hunt for the king’s tomb.

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