“The Sinai Artifact” by Howard Gleichenhaus is now available for purchase

“Seducing the fool took little effort. From May, when Bell first arrived to begin the summer program, she found ways to be alone with her boss. She hacked his personal e-mail account and his daily calendar. She knew where he’d be at any given time, day or night, often showing up as if by coincidence.”
– an excerpt from the book
Author Reputation Press is honored to publish “The Sinai Artifact” by Howard Gleichenhaus. This masterpiece is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the ARP website.
The author, Howard Gleichenhaus, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in the Bronx, New York City, and Spring Valley, New York. He earned his bachelor’s degree in biology from Southern Connecticut State College, a master’s degree in biology, and a second master’s degree in psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey.
He spent a few years doing neurochemical research at the Nathan Kline Institute in Orangeburg, NY, and polymer chemistry research at Reichhold Chemicals in Sterling Forest, New York, before settling into a 35-year teaching career in the Clarkstown Central School District in New City, New York.
Howard, who is retired, lives in Delray Beach, Florida, with his wife, Fredda. They have been married for 49 years.
“The Sinai Artifact,” which presents the murder of an antiquities curator at the Smithsonian Institution, brings FBI agent Ted Lansing to the prestigious Washington Museum. He again steps into an all-consuming case that takes him from the comforts of his new life to the barren, mountainous terrain of the Sinai Peninsula in search of the killer and an elusive piece of granite, the Sinai Artifact.
The curator’s death and subsequent recovery of the priceless artifact become a race across the globe, first to Rome and ultimately to the Middle East, all with deadly consequences. What secrets do the objects hold, and how many innocent victims must die in search of the greatest archeological discovery of all time? Or is the oddly shaped stone something entirely different?
From Lansing’s initial discovery that his prime suspect is not who she first appeared to be to a cast of conspiratorial characters, the case takes Lansing halfway around the world. One-time German Stasi agent Hans Richter, now in the employ of Russia’s clandestine service, orders the murder of an elderly Vatican priest who comes too close to the artifact’s true secret, but it is only the start of Richter’s murderous quest for the priceless stone. Roadblocks to Richter’s pursuit of the treasure and Lansing’s relentless hunt to uncover the secret buried in the Sinai are thwarted by a formidable adversary of Richter, a linguist and expert in biblical languages, Russian archaeologist Irina Kazakov.
But for which side is she working? What are the Russians hiding from the world? Why is the Catholic Church so interested in recovering the oddly shaped stone? Does the centuries-old monastery of Santa Katerina and its complement of Greek Orthodox priests hold the answer?
“The Sinai Artifact” by Howard Gleichenhaus is now available for purchase via ARP Bookstore: https://authorreputationpress.com/products/the-sinai-artifact.