The Thousand

AN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY A MYSTERIOUS BROTHERHOOD A YOUNG WOMAN CAUGHT IN A BATTLE OVER THE FATE OF MANKIND In 530 B.C. a mysterious ship appeared off the rainy shores of Croton in what is now Italy. After three days a man disembarked to address the curious and frightened crowd that had gathered. He called himself Pythagoras. Exactly what he said that day is unknown, but afterwards a thousand men and women abandoned their lives and families to follow him. Over the centuries they became a secret society of powerful individuals safeguarding the teachings of one of history's most brilliant mathematicians. But now, triggered by a brutal murder in Chicago, the brotherhood erupts into civil war, and a young woman finds herself at the centre of ancient revelations that could become not just instruments of terror but a threat to modern existence . . . PRAISE FOR KEVIN GUILFOILE- 'Gripping, creepy. Guilfoile does it with more panache than Crichton' NEW YORK TIMES 'A rare treat - a book to savour, contemplate, and admire' STEPHEN WHITE 'A riveting new novel . . . you'll stay up all night until all the pieces fall into place' SARA PARETSKY 'Guilfoile is a bright new star in the crime fiction universe, but so much more than that' C.J. BOX