Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36038 in Books
• Published on: 2001-02-12
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 438 pages

Synopsis
The discovery of a corpse five centuries dead in the South American jungle portends the a wonderful and terrifying secret waiting to be unleashed upon humankind.

Customer Reviews

Great Indiana Jones story
Rollins truly writes fun adventures and this is right up there with the best Indiana stories.

We get a lost Inca tribe up in the highlands of Peru, together with a mysterious nanotechnology Gold alloy with strange powers. These finds are being sought by a team of archaeolgists as well as a secret religous sect stemming from the Spanish Inquisitors. The action takes us through the usual jungles, trap doors, and maze of death, with a host of dangerous creatures and bad guys.

All great action adventure ingredients and worth a fun read.

Well, I finished it
I was a bit disappointed with this. The plot and characters were largely unbelievable and even suspending belief proved extremely difficult at times. The references to knowing how to handle a gun because you are from Belfast were, I'm sure, offensive to pretty much anyone from Northern Ireland and the discovery of a specific property of the mysterious substance at the end of the book just did not ring true, surely it would have been one of the first things to have been discovered with all the attendant consequences. Having said all that I did read it all and it does rattle along at a fair old pace and there are worse ways to kill time at the airport.

Great book dispite some bad bits....
Excavation isn't as good as Subterranean but it's still a damn good read!! I give it four stars as there were some parts that I just had to shake my head at - Maggie knowing how to handle a gun just because she is from Belfast and was there through the troubles? that half of her 'Irish' vocab seemed Scottish? Apart from those small things, I really enjoyed the story, again being fast paced and keeping you gripped all the way through. Would still recommend this to any adventure lover!