The Ebony Coffin

Jim Kirkwood's visit to an antique shop in Queens New York starts with an invitation and ends in a hail of bullets. Kirkwood a self-indulgent self-confident and at times unsympathetic connoisseur of human nature finds himself swept into a bottomless pit of betrayal and malice in his hunt for perhaps the greatest archeological find of all time. At a clandestine auction held at a mansion in southern England the situation quickly turns deadly throwing Kirkwood into a cat and mouse game of deception greed and murder. </p><p>In his search for what has been lost for hundreds of years Kirkwood chases a man of the Church who just may be the most evil person he has ever encountered and a woman who is by far the most beautiful and mysterious. Along with Iain MacLeod Chief of the Clan MacLeod Kirkwood crisscrosses Scotland and England in pursuit of a murderer and the treasure that may hold secrets associated with the Gnostic Gospels. </p><p>Reunited with an old comrade Kirkwood must settle old scores but it may cost him his life. <I>The Ebony Coffin</I> author B. Eugene Ellison's fifth Jim Kirkwood novel is an exhilarating fast-paced adventure filled with history and intrigue. </p><p>