William E Schutmaat

Guanahani William E Schutmaat

As the Thirty Years War rears its ugly head in the Rhine and European powers seek new lands to colonize in the Americas, clues contained in the pages of a medieval codex leading to a fortune of inestimable value are deciphered by reclusive monks who reveal the Tzedakah Prophecy, a legend that will spin a web of lust, intrigue, treason and vengeance that ensnares both the powerful and meek of the earth in its deadly net. As the race against time to find the Tzedakah´s enormous wealth begins those who join the search include... The infamous Jewish pirate Moses Cohen Henriques who will never attack or murder on a Shabbat.... King Frederick V of Bohemia in the Holy Roman Empire, the first Protestant to challenge papal authority ... Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II and the Monk in Armor who seek world dominance.... Dominie Johannes Polhemius, who fights the Holy Inquisition as it advances in Europe and joins Prince Maurice to found one of the most glittering and prosperous Dutch colonies in Brazil, ..... Rabbi Aboab, founder of the first synagogue in the Americas...... Prince Yuri Bbondi of Matamba, enslaved by Portuguese slave traders in Africa and taken to Brazil where he is freed by pirates and joins their ranks... Andrew Parrish, Dominie Polhemius´s childhood friend turned deadly traitorAll of them try to unravel the mystery of Guanahani, the lost island of Columbus, to find Tzedakah, the hidden charity fund whose inestimable wealth can change the course of one of the most devastating wars in history