Product Description

Non stop adventure and death defying chases in Will Adam's outstanding debut novel. It's 318 BC in the deserts of Libya, and Alexander the Great is buried as only a God should be, placed in a golden Sarcophagus in a catacomb of chambers, each packed with diamonds, rubies and gold. This was how he should have remained, but time waits for no-one. 2007 and underwater archaeologist Daniel Knox has been on the trail of Alexander's Gold ever since he can remember. When a tomb is uncovered on the construction site of a new hotel, Daniel believes he has found the clue to what he has been working towards for years. But the discovery has alerted two of the most dangerous men in the world, and Daniel is now a marked man.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #572 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 517 pages

Synopsis
Non stop adventure and death defying chases in Will Adam's outstanding debut novel. It's 318 BC in the deserts of Libya, and Alexander the Great is buried as only a God should be, placed in a golden Sarcophagus in a catacomb of chambers, each packed with diamonds, rubies and gold. This was how he should have remained, but time waits for no-one. 2007 and underwater archaeologist Daniel Knox has been on the trail of Alexander's Gold ever since he can remember. When a tomb is uncovered on the construction site of a new hotel, Daniel believes he has found the clue to what he has been working towards for years. But the discovery has alerted two of the most dangerous men in the world, and Daniel is now a marked man.

About the Author
Will Adams worked as a shop salesman, painter & decorator, warehouse porter and microfiche technician before joining a Washington DC-based firm of business history consultants, for whom he wrote a number of corporate histories and biographies, taking time off between projects to travel to remote places in search of exotic settings for his stories. He later worked as a communications consultant for a London agency before resigning and selling his flat to give himself a shot at fulfilling his lifelong ambition of becoming a novelist

Customer Reviews

Non-stop action adventure about the search for the tomb of Alexander the Great.
"The Alexander Cipher" takes a couple of chapters to get going, but from there the pace doesn't let up. The short chapters with cliffhanger endings pull you in and keep you reading.

When we first meet Egyptologist Daniel Knox, he's working on a dive boat in Egypt. Shortly he'll be a wanted man on the run from some very unpleasant men. Cut to Gaille Bonnard, an attractive French ancient language specialist working on a dig in the Delta. She has never met Knox, but has her own reasons for hating him. Cut to Alexandria, where a group of construction workers have uncovered a long-lost catacomb that contains clues to the location of the tomb of Alexander the Great, a tomb that some powerful Macedonian separatists are desperate to find...

I don't read books like this expecting fleshed-out characters or realistic storylines - as long as the pace and tension continues fast enough that's fine with me. This book didn't disappoint in that regard and Knox actually makes a likeable protagonist, resourceful but believably so: an everyman hero.

The only downside of the rapid pace is that tensions don't last for long. Problems arise but get resolved in the next chapter. Nevertheless another twist comes quickly enough to keep you hooked. This would be the perfect book to read on a boring plane flight.

Will Adams is a first-time novelist but definitely one to watch.

An entertaining debut
This is an engrossing and entertaining read, with good insight into it's character's motivations, although there seemed to be a few too many supporting characters who slowed down the action to my mind.
I understand it took the author some time to get this published, but hopefully it was worth the effort. If he can build on the strengths of this first book then I look forward to reading his next effort.

The magic of Alexander the Great - a fast paced thriller
Alexander the Great and his long lost resting place is the core and background for this fast paced thriller, even tough it needs a bit of time to gain that pace. Several different stories interwine and lead to a dramtic end. Here all the right ingredients are in place to hook the readers quickly and wanting them to learn how the story continues to find the long lost treasure - the tomb of Alexander the Great. It is a great debut novel.