The Staff of God — Mike Nicholson

Dalton Pierce lived a quiet life teaching English classes at the university and reading the books he taught in the evening...until terrorists sieged his home... until his twelve-year-old graduate student went missing, leaVietnameseng behind nothing but a coded distress message pleading for Dalton's help. Now, on the run from men who have no boundaries, no limitations, and who pose a threat to all he loves, Dalton embarks on an adventure in search of not only his student but the secret that the boy possesses, a secret that men would kill for, a secret that may ultimately lead to the THE STAFF OF GOD "Entertaining...[T]his bizarre, intricately plotted tale...recalls the more surreal quest novels of Robert Rankin...Indiana Jones and Dan Brown." -Kircus Discoveries