With the permission of the Syrian government, the codex was bequeathed to Ahmed’s monastery under the promise that they would translate it and then loan it to a museum for public display. The brothers were more than happy to agree, and when Ahmed boarded the very nice but very small yacht Boone had chartered for him back to Syria, he was all smiles. I shed a tear or two when he left, but I felt certain we’d meet again. As I learned every day, the rare book world was small, after all.
The police officers of Nicosia and Kyrenia had the biggest breaks of their careers when they closed down both Eleni and the Germans’ smuggling rings. While keeping a very low profile so as not to blow his cover, Boone managed to share all the pertinent information with the courts to ensure that everyone indic
