Archeological Suspense

The tomb of China’s First Emperor, guarded by an underground army of terra-cotta warriors, has remained sealed for more than 2,000 years. Though it’s regarded as one of the greatest archaeological sites in the world, the Chinese government won’t allow anyone to open it. Why? That question is at the heart of a dilemma faced by former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone, whose life is shattered when he receives an anonymous note carrying an unfamiliar Web address.

Treasure of Babylon is Part 2 of the Avalon Adventure series – fast-paced mystery thrillers featuring a crew of friends who fly around the world in their own plane, risking everything on wild archaeological adventures. When Selena Moore’s father is brutally kidnapped in Jerusalem, the crew of the Avalon are drawn into a desperate struggle to save his life and stop an insane enemy from getting possession of the most famous missing relic in the world – the lost Ark of the Covenant. Tested to the limit, Mitch Decker and the rest of the crew must use everything in their arsenal to save ...

In Colorado near the Cheyenne Mountains, a team of topflight engineers venture on an ambitious cross country ski trip, using their newly invented outdoor equipment. The strapping group of young people are having the adventure of their lives—skiing, laughing, playing in the snow, and mugging for the camera. But when the gang was expected to arrive back from their trip—no one ever returned. Nora's excavation skills and Corrie's investigative talents are put to the test as they try to uncover what happened to the promising skiers on this cold and isolating mountain.

After Kyle Miller's team of archaeologists unearth a lost city in Egypt, he contacts the well-respected Walden to assist in the discovery. Walden reluctantly accepts, and soon travels over there to begin working with the rest of the excavation team. After picking up Walden from the airport, the driver talks about the project, including why he thinks it might be a dangerous idea. But he refuses to elaborate. After Walden begins to work on the project, the discoveries rapidly begin to get stranger. Additionally, one of Miller's lead researchers mysteriously vanishes. What is it about the site...

This assiduously researched, fast-paced novel brings archaeology, bioengineering, and cyber espionage to life against an international backdrop of five continents. Listeners will meet a fascinating cast of characters on the trail of the elusive international criminal killers. Mixing the action of David Baldacci’s The Hit, the tech thrills of Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, and the dialogue of Robert B. Parker’s Spenser novels, The Zulu Curse is a true pleasure to listen to.

Join Joe Hawke and the famous ECHO team as they charge into their twentieth adventure! After a mysterious intruder breaches Elysium's defences, the entire team is on high alert, but they soon unravel a connection with the Zaugg Dynasty and set out once again in a race against time to stop their oldest enemy from acquiring the most powerful force ever seen in history. Their determination to settle the oldest of scores and bring Hugo Zaugg's daughter Helga to justice throws them into a high-speed chase across Washington DC, Prague, Munich and the Aegean Sea until they finally discover the ...

A deadly relic. A lethal enemy. A fatal countdown. When a crack team of Congolese and Belgian mercenaries steal an ancient relic with a deadly secret, Hawke and the rest of the ECHO team are offered the task of retrieving the stolen object. Left reeling from the shock of Faulkner’s takeover of the American Presidency and their new fugitive status, they agree to take on the job for the money they need to rescue Alex Reeve and her father, President Brooke, both imprisoned on Tartarus, a notorious CIA black site. With their backs up against the wall like never before, events rapidly escalate...

Hawke returns in his tenth adventure to find himself hurled into a dramatic race against time as the ECHO team fight to rescue Lexi from her brutal kidnappers, retrieve the mysterious Sword of Fire and locate the King’s Tomb. The divided team fight their way from the South African veld and streets of Hong Kong and Beijing to the ancient hills of Greece and Europe’s oldest sunken city, battling like warriors in their bid to deny the Oracle and his deadly cult the treasure they desire to control the world’s future. Meanwhile, the worst terror attack in the history of the United States ...

Historian Dr. Nina Gould is visited by her stepbrother, whom she had not seen for ages. With him, he brings a man holding him hostage. Nina has to help them locate a man reputed to own the Holy Grail, or else her stepbrother would be implicated in a serial killing spree. Her research on the Grail reveals that a unit of Allied soldiers, called the Perceval Chapter, were entrusted with the Grail during the North African Campaign in 1944, tasked to keep it out of Nazi hands.

An ancient medallion is unearthed in Pueblo, Colorado, revealing a secret that will rewrite the history of North America - the Vikings somehow made it to the continent's interior, centuries before Columbus made landfall, and there they built a city of gold. But today the Coelho medallion has been stolen, and a linguist and researcher has been abducted in connection with the crime. Could the abductors be after the fabled city of gold? Or do they have a more sinister plot in mind?

First they tried to kill him. Then they took his daughter . . . Anthropologist Simon Dracup knows that his only hope of finding her alive lies within the pages of his grandfather's diary, the record of a near century old expedition to Mount Ararat, legendary resting place of the great Ark of Noah. When the CIA pays him a visit Dracup learns that something was found on the Ark. Something priceless. Now its owners have taken it back, but they want revenge and Dracup is their prime target . . .

John Henry “Doc” Holiday and the rest of “The President’s Dozen” (plus one) race into the breach once again, undaunted by the deadliest odds they’ve ever faced. Their mission is to hunt down “The Keeper” and a man calling himself Nostradamus “The Father of Time”, whose scrolls reputedly contain a secret that could rock the entire world.

After inheriting a farm on New Zealand’s South Island, Lewis Harding tries his best to keep it running. The financially strapped farmer is forced to forage his new land for implements, eliciting the help of his son Gary. But when they go too close to the entrance of an old deserted gold mine, catastrophe strikes in more ways then one. When Gary’s older brother, Dr. Cecil Harding, shows up at the farm, Nekenhalle, he discovers that his brother and father had gone missing.

With a terminally ill wife, Glasgow mechanic Court Callany is desperate for money. When an acquaintance from work asks him to help him rob a wealthy antiques collector’s home, he reluctantly agrees. However, the robbery goes wrong, and when Court tries to sell his stolen artifacts at a local pawnshop, he unwittingly enters into the underworld of international relic hunting.

When Broadway star Maggie Hamilton disappeared five years ago, it was a mystery that captured the imaginations of everyone. When her body turns up in the tomb of a Mayan god, it opens the door for an evil that could consume the world. Dan Kolter and Agent Roland Denzel are back, and just in time, as a new threat emerges that could mean the end of all humanity. A mysterious figure has his sights on the contents of a lost Mayan tomb, and Kotler and company will need to use all of their resources, intelligence, and any luck they may have to keep an ancient curse at bay. In this fourth full-...

After losing everything he owned in a swift defeat from his greatest enemy, David Purdue is not the man he once was. Broken and beaten, the once great adventurer David Purdue must rebuild his life to try and reclaim what was taken from him. Forming uneasy alliances with modern-day pirates, Purdue seeks the buried treasure of a once infamous buccaneer, seeing it as the only way to start restoring his lost wealth. He quickly learns that things aren't nearly as easy when you have no money and sail with a crew of criminals who might mutiny at any moment.

Famed rock-star-turned-philanthropist Ashton Mink is murdered in his Manhattan high-rise apartment, leaving behind the words “Devil’s Interval” as the only clue to the killer’s identify or motives. Dan Kotler, archeologist and consultant with the FBI’s new Historic Crimes Division, and Agent Roland Denzel, of the FBI, are called to the scene of Mink’s murder, and asked to help in the investigation. What they discover is a secret project, based on the research of historic figures such as Sir Isaac Newton, that could alter the course of history and enslave humanity.

Dan Kotler, independent researcher and archaeologist, is winding down from the events surrounding the theft and recovery of the Coelho Medallion, and discovering that the fallout of this history-altering adventure reaches further than he’d imagined. As academic colleagues shun him and the press hounds him, Kotler finds himself looking for a new purpose. When Gail McCarthy, granddaughter of one of Manhattan’s wealthiest real estate moguls, brings an ancient stone to Kotler’s attention, he finds himself embroiled once again in intrigue, jeopardy, and mystery.

Gus Voigt has been many things. A weapons smuggler, a barroom brawler, and the enforcer for a biker gang. After some bad choices, he finds himself hiding out in South America, scraping by as the captain of a river boat on the Amazon. There, he struggles to make ends meet while trying to take care of his wayward nephew, Jesse. Gus’ fortunes suddenly change when a mysterious Hollywood producer approaches him with a film crew and a map to Paititi, an ancient lost city of gold.

Packed with breathtaking suspense and nerve-shredding action, the Order of the Black Sun series is a thrilling journey for all fans of action, suspense, and intrigue. Join a series and a cast of characters that will keep you entertained long into the night. Two complete full-length novels, The Fountain of Youth and The Vault of Hercules, are included in this best-selling epic adventure box set.