Deluge

While excavating in the mountains of Kurdistan for evidence of an ancient widespread flood Dr Maria Sombarte instead unearths a relic she had spent much of her career discrediting. Now she must find her colleague and rival Anthony Waterman who has vanished in the darkness of the Brazilian Amazon. Meanwhile in Russia Chief Inspector Vassallo is tasked with finding the terrorist responsible for the attempted assassination of a bishop favoured by many to be chosen as the next Pope.