The Last Ark

SLVIA . . . decades ago, an AI program escaped the NSA Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and has never been re-captured . . . true story. Following a brutal massacre, the Ethiopian Ark of the Covenant - a revered religious artifact - sells on the international black market. Soon afterward, the death of an aging Saudi King spurs a flawed Saudi-Israeli peace deal, promoted by a polarizing former US president under criminal indictment and seeking political asylum. Elsewhere, an assassin from the fanat