Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #53800 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 480 pages

Synopsis
It is the biggest treasure hunt in history with contesting nations involved in a headlong race to locate the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 4500 years ago, a magnificent golden capstone sat at the peak of the Great Pyramid of Giza. It was a source of immense power, reputedly capable of bestowing upon its holder absolute global power. But, then it was divided into seven pieces and hidden, each piece separately, within the seven greatest structures of the age. Now it's 2006, and the coming of a rare solar event means it's time to locate the seven pieces and rebuild the capstone. Everyone wants it - from the most powerful countries on Earth to gangs of terrorists...and one daring coalition of eight small nations. Led by the mysterious Captain Jack West Jr, this determined group enters a global battlefield filled with booby-trapped mines, crocodile-infested swamps, evil forces and an adventure beyond imagining. "More action, hair-raising stunts and lethal hardware than you'd find in four Bond movies. Reilly is the hottest action writer around." - "Evening Telegraph".

Customer Reviews

How Do Books Like This Get Published?
I have to say that I am dumbfounded that this book managed to get published as an adult book! If the characters had been from a fantasy world or even a Sci-Fi angle it may have worked from a story point of view, although this wouldn't have excused the appalling writing.

Basically a group of elite soldiers from the 'smaller' countries in the world run around the world finding the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World with the aid of an archaeologist come mad professor/inventor - who seems able to invent an appropriate gadget for each required situation, including a perfectly working bionic arm for the main hero who loses his by sticking it, heroically, into molten lava - and a small mystic girl who can decipher dead languages. They are only missing a cute heroic dog and they would be complete!

It's a truly dreadful book that I only finished out of morbid curiosity, and was left open mouthed at the end but not in a good way. Kids of 5 would be offended by the lack of depth in this book.

And as a final point - the heroic Captain West is described as once being part of the best elite force in the world, the Australian SAS - WHAT?? Nothing against the Aussie SAS, by the way - damned fine chaps and superb soldiers one and all I suspect - but I don't know many people who would put them at the very top of the SF tree? I think the SAS and Delta Force (amongst others) might disagree!!

Truly awful book, don't buy it!

Utter tosh

If this book has to be marketed it should be in the childrens' section.
Got to about page 100 then threw it in the bin.
Utter tosh.
Just goes to show that "No1 best seller" means nothing.
DO NOT be sucked in by the marketing hype.

Worst. Book. Ever
This could possibly be the worst book I've ever read, and I've read "The Last Templar." The story is so stupid that you want to gauge your eyes out; the writing style is worse than that of a twelve-year-old; he uses exclamation marks like there's no tomorrow; and the characters are so flat you could build a card house out of them...

Avoid at all costs. You have been warned.

Read James Rollins instead.