ON THE FIFTH DAY

Book ID/图书代码： 06814006B03207

English Summary/英文概要： ON THE FIFTH DAY is the story of Thomas Knight, a maverick high school teacher who is shocked out of his professional problems by the death of his estranged brother, Ed, the young priest killed in the Philippines. Though raised Catholic, Thomas has long since abandoned his faith; having to deal with the priests who were his brother’s friends makes his cautious probing into what happened to Ed all the more uncomfortable. But when he hears official whispers that his brother was connected to a terrorist organization, Thomas resolves to get to the bottom of the matter. Through his investigation, he quickly learns that there are powerful people who want the matter left well alone.
His quest takes him first to Italy—and his brother’s research into an early Christian fish symbol—then on to Japan where he reconnects with his ex-wife, by which time Thomas is convinced that his brother was pursuing images of a legged fish and their ties to ancient religion, including Christianity. Thomas, like his brother, becomes convinced that the fish was not only real, it is also still alive. Ed had been trying to find what might be “the missing link” -- living proof of evolution, which was also part of his theological pursuit of harmonious balance between faith in God and science.
As he makes his cautious alliances and dodges attempts on his life, Thomas becomes certain that his brother found what he was looking for, and that someone with military connections attempted to destroy him and the evidence in a carefully planned attack disguised to look like an air-strike against a terrorist training camp. The final showdown on the white sands of a Philippine beach surrounded by ominously blood-red water pits Thomas against an enemy whose fundamentalist convictions make him as merciless as he is lethal. Thomas is finally able to make sense of what the Jesus fish means, but whether that knowledge will somehow keep him alive is another matter.
A.J. Hartley’s ON THE FIFTH DAY is the politically-charged, controversial follow-up to THE MASK OF ATREUS, and it uses the same explosive blend of historical fact and speculative fiction to create a spectacular international thriller.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 第五日是个关于Thomas爵士的故事,他是位特例独行的高中教师,有个关系不太密切的兄弟,名叫爱德华,是位牧师,不久在菲律宾遭到了谋杀, Thomas被这件事震惊了.虽然Thomas是由信奉天主教的家庭抚养成人的,但他从未有过任何信奉;在一次偶然的机会中,他听到一些高官人员交头接耳的说道他的兄弟,爱德华的死与恐怖分子集团有关,他意识到在爱德华身上所发生的一切太不寻常了,于是决定查找出这起谋杀案的真正缘由.在他调查的过程中,他很快察觉到有一些位高权重的上层人士不想让他再继续调查下去。
他查找的踪迹首先到达了意大利——查找到这起案件与基督教早期的一个鱼型图样的符号有关——接着他又来到了日本，在那里Thomas与他的前妻取得了联系，同时，他也取得了鱼型图案的具体资料，这是条有四条腿的鱼，而且与古时的许多宗教有关，包括基督教。Thomas开始深信这条鱼不但是确实存在的，而且至今还存活着的。他的兄弟爱德华始终都试图找到有什么遗漏的线索——也就是这条鱼进化的证据，这也是爱德华部分理论上有关神与科学在某些信念上之间的联系，是可以达到和谐统一的。
随着调查的深入，Thomas更确定他的兄弟已经找到了他所要的资料和证据，而有些亿万富翁且与此事有关的人士曾多次进行周密的计划，目的是为了破坏爱德华所找到的证据，并试图让此事看起来与恐怖分子有关。在菲律宾的沙滩上,四周都是不吉祥的沙坑,里面布满了红色的海水, Thomas决定在这里与敌人一决死战，找出鱼型图案的真正意义，但他是否能够活下来又是另外一回事了。

Awards/获奖情况：• Updated reviews and accolades for A.J. Hartley’s International Thriller Writers Award winning YA trilogy

About the Author/作者介绍： A.J. Hartley的《第五日》是《ATREU的面具》的续篇，同《ATREU的面具》这本书一样，《第五日》同样运用了历史现实与探索小说的相结合，以此来创造国际型侦探惊险小说。

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