Publisher's Synopsis
Lisbon, 1904: A man named Tomas discovers an old journal that hints of an extraordinary artefact which - if he can find it - would redefine history. Travelling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, Tomas sets out in search of this strange treasure... Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the centre of a murder mystery of his own, and is drawn into the consequences of Tomas's quest... Fifty years on, a Canadian senator seeks refuge in his ancestral village in northern Portugal, mourning the loss of his beloved wife. He arrives with an unusual companion: a chimpanzee. It is here that this centuries-old adventure comes to its conclusion...
