title: The Shroud: The 2000-Year-Old Mystery Solved
author: Ian Wilson
description: Published to coincide with a new round of public showings of the Shroud ordered by the Pope -- the first in 10 years. The exhibition will be housed in Turin Cathedral from April 10 to May 15, 2010 and will generate major media attention and fresh focus on the Shroud. The Pope and literally millions of pilgrims will go.<br><br>"The godfather of the bestselling genre of historical quests that seek for the 'truth' behind ancient myths and faiths." <br>--<i>The Independent<br></i>
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  # **Brothers in Arms**
  
  ### **For Martha and Andy**
  
  ## **CHAPTER ONE**
  
  His combat-drop shuttle crouched still and silent in the repairs docking
  baymalevolent, to Miles's jaundiced eye. Its metal and fibreplas surface was
  scarred, pitted and burned. It had seemed such a proud, gleaming, efficient
  vessel when it was new. Perhaps it had undergone psychotic personality change
  from its traumas. It had been new such a short few months ago. . . .
  
  Miles rubbed his face wearily, and blew out his breath. If there was any
  incipient psychosis floating around here, it wasn't contained in the
  machinery. In the eye of the beholder indeed. He took his booted foot off the
  bench he'd been draped over and straightened up, at least to the degree his
  crooked spine permitted. Commander Quinn, alert to his every move, fell in
  behind him.
  
  "There," Miles limped down the length of the fuselage and pointed to the
  shutt