The Secret of Secrets

Langdon eyed the pointed weapon, immediately wondering if maybe now he was dreaming. Langdon didn’t speak Czech, but the guard’s body language was crystal clear. Because Jewish custom forbade the exhumation of a buried body, when space in the cemetery was at capacity, the Jewish leaders merely brought in a new layer of earth, building it over the original graveyard and moving the existing tombstones up to the new ground level. Last night, The Golěm had finally seized his opportunity, isolating Gessner in her lab and immortalizing the treachery.