Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24421 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Peterborough Evening Telegraph
'You will need your wits about you when you read this book...in a race against time'

Daily Sport(Manchester)
'And with the end of the world in balance, too,there's enough colour and action here to brighten up skint nights...'

Synopsis
In case I don't return. Eureka 40 10 4 400 30 9 30 70 100 5 200 30 10 40 1 80 5 100 400 40 10 50 10 200 300 100 8 70 9 1 50 300 10 20 800 10 300 10 200 0051172543672. An eminent Oxford professor is murdered but the authorities are calling it a suicide. Beautiful young don Catherine Donovan refuses to believe the official verdict especially after she receives a cryptic note sent just before the professor's death, along with a collection of priceless antique maps. Teaming up with classicist James Rutherford, she embarks on a journey which takes them from the dreaming spires of Oxford to the ancient wonders of Peru and Egypt. With a shadowy organization determined to stop them, can Catherine and James unlock the mystery of the ancients before they become the killers' next victims? And can it really be possible that these clues are warning of an imminent cataclysm one that puts even more than their lives in peril?

Customer Reviews

Good read bad ending
I really liked this story and it went at a fast pace. Unfortunately I was really dissapointed by the ending.

Started off well... but didn't last !
The story started well and the plot was pretty intense to begin with. Although it didn't last long. The plot seemed to be over in just a couple of chapters. I also felt the dialogue was witten in a somewhat unnatural way. Some of the sentences had me shaking my head and i'm no best selling novellist!

I too was bamboozled by the Catherine / Rutherford naming convention.

As the book progressed I had the distinct feeling that the author was beginning to rush things. The ending was indeed a bit of a let-down. It all seemed to be over in an instant in one big Crash, Bang, Wallop... Happy ever after...

Having said all this. This type of storyline does interest me and I will be reading his next novel "Kingdom", which is due for release in January 2009.

Edge of your seat page turner
This is a very easy book to read, not too over complicated and builds a good tense thriller of a storyline from the very beginning, making you want to not put it down!

The story stretches from Oxford, England to South America and then to Egypt. The climax of the story in the great pyramid at Giza is just incredible and its just a shame that the author didn;t elaborate a bit more on the secrets kept under the pyramid.

A great book and I would definitely recommend it.