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Sto caricando le informazioni... Kingdom of Darknessdi Andy McDermott
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![]() Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. ![]() ![]() ![]() The books was kind of slow to start, even with the long action sequence in the first chapter. However, it did keep getting better and better and by halfway through I couldn't put it down. The book was Indiana Jones meets Dirk Pitt meets the Goonies meets National Treasure. Lots of action, quick wrap-up. The only thing that bugged me was that the edition I had, the blue cover with the dagger, was taller than a normal paperback and that made it hard to hold. The book was long page-wise, so making it physically shorter would have given it more pages and made it harder to hold that way. Was there filler? Yes, but not so much as to annoy this reader. Well, maybe the car chase in Italy. Overall, I would recommend it to anyone who likes action novels or Indiana Jones. Kingdom of Darkness by Andy McDermott is a highly recommended adrenaline packed thriller for action/adventure junkies. This tenth addition to the Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase series opens with Nazi's finding a jar that descendants of Andreas, the cook for Alexander the Great, have hidden away. It contains the secret of immortality that Andreas found in the Kingdom of Darkness. Then the action jumps to the present day. Nina and Eddie are in Hollywood when a young man approaches them, telling Nina, “Dr. Wilde, I must give you this. They must not be allowed to raid Alexander’s tomb!” He manages to show Nina the plans and tells her "...they are going to break into the tomb and steal the statue of Bucephalus. You have to stop them!” Eddie is naturally alarmed, but Nina explains to him that the papers show a plan of Alexander the Great’s tomb, in Egypt. The young man manages to tell Nina that the "Oberkommando” is behind the planned theft and that he needs the statue to lead them to the Spring of Immortality. Then, suddenly the young man is killed by a mysterious gunman. The chase is on, as Eddie tries to find out the identity of the gunman. After the dust settles (barely) Nina and Eddie are off on another globe-trotting adventure to discover the statue and the location of the rumored Spring of Immortality. This time there are real Nazi's, and plenty of action and ground to be covered in order to untangle the truth behind the myth of Alexander the Great's tomb. To add to the stress, Nina is not well, but she and Eddie are as devoted to each other as ever and Eddie is still quick witted and full of one liners. Nina and Eddie are well established characters at this point, but that shouldn't deter anyone in just picking up this book and reading it. It can stand alone because, let's face it, we're reading these books for the action-packed plot more than anything else. McDermott knows what his fans want at this point and he delivers. (There is a series changing event in this one.) Disclosure: My Kindle edition was courtesy of Random House for review purposes. ![]() nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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In Los Angeles, a desperate man seeks out renowned archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband, ex-SAS soldier Eddie Chase-only to be gunned down in front of them. The assassin is soon identified as a ninety-year-old Nazi war criminal-with the body of a healthy forty-year-old. Following the victim's final warnings, Nina and Eddie travel to Cairo to inspect the newly discovered tomb of Alexander the Great. But the real find is hidden in one of its treasures-a mechanical guide leading to one of antiquity's most tantalizing myths: a spring of water said to give eternal life to those who drink it. Nina, Eddie, and a team of Mossad agents realize that the myth is real, and that a group of former SS men who have tasted this water are now hunting for its source. But before they can act, Nina is kidnapped and spirited away to a secret Nazi enclave in Argentina, igniting a fierce, fateful, globe-spanning struggle in which her life hangs in the balance. All the while a terrifying possibility emerges-that the world's darkest evil could live on forever. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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