With The Circle of Megiddo, Nathalie Rheims takes us to the sources of our beliefs. The novel's plot plunges us into the mysteries of astrology and the secrets of Kabbalah. Maya is a young archaeologist. She leaves London one Monday morning to join Professor Friedmann, who has just made an important discovery at the site of Megiddo, in northern Israel. The discovery of a Chaldean sanctuary calls into question the origins of the Bible. Messages appear on cell phones, some of them threatening. "You have twelve days left." A curse seems to have begun; each day a new victim succumbs, in an inexorable countdown... Nathalie Rheims is a writer. The Circle of Megiddo is her seventh book. Éditions Léo Scheer, 2005