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Wrath of Poseidon by Clive Cussler, Robin Burcell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTen years ago, a chance meeting at the Lighthouse Café in Redondo Beach led Sam Fargo and Remi Longstreet on the adventure of a lifetime, hunting the legendary riches stolen from the Persian King Croesus in 546 B.C. But they weren't the only ones. Someone else is after the gold, and he's willing to kill anyone who gets in his way...Categorized as:
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The Last Oracle and The Doomsday Key: A Sigma Force Bundle by James Rollins
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Last Oracle and The Doomsday Key has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher...Categorized as:
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![Angels and Demons / The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #1-2) by Dan Brown]()
Angels and Demons / The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #1-2) by Dan Brown
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsEnter the labyrinthine world of internationally bestselling author Dan Brown with his first two spellbinding thrillers featuring Robert Langdon:Angels and DemonsWhen a groundbreaking scientist is found brutally murdered, world renowned Harvard professor Robert Langdon is summoned to identify the mysterious symbol seared on to the dead man's chest...Categorized as:
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![The Emperor's Revenge by Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison]()
The Emperor's Revenge by Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe new Oregon Files adventure from the #1 New York Times–bestselling grand master of adventure. Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon face their toughest challenge yet when a violent bank heist during the Monaco Grand Prix decimates the Corporation’s accounts... -
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![Journey of the Pharaohs by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown]()
Journey of the Pharaohs by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsANCIENT SECRETS. MODERN WEAPONS . . . When Kurt Austin rescues the crew of a Scottish trawler, he finds himself trying to save them not once but twice. First, from the violent storm that dashes their vessel into jagged rocks and, second, from the deadly gunmen desperate to get their hands on its lost cargo of stolen Egyptian artefacts...Categorized as:
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![The Swagger Sword: Templars, Columbus and the Vatican Cover-up by David S. Brody]()
The Swagger Sword: Templars, Columbus and the Vatican Cover-up by David S. Brody
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the 1980s, a Vatican archbishop and rogue group of Freemasons were implicated in the murder of Pope John Paul I. A decade later, that same cleric illicitly acquired an ancient Templar scroll directly undermining fundamental Church teachings. Today, historians Cameron Thorne and Amanda Spencer-Gunn stumble upon a sword engraved with a map leading to this hidden scroll...Categorized as:
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![The Magdalene deception by Gary McAvoy, Will Damron]()
The Magdalene deception by Gary McAvoy, Will Damron
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA forbidden secret . . .The Church’s fate in the balance . . .Will a pair of amateur sleuths expose a truth that could upend the Christian world? Jesus’ resurrection is a cornerstone of Christian faith. But when a clue surfaces that hints at an alternate account, the ramifications stand to change Christianity forever... -
![The Forgotten Holocaust by Scott Mariani]()
The Forgotten Holocaust by Scott Mariani
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA BRUTAL MURDER. A HORRIFYING SECRET.ONLY BEN CAN EXPOSE THE TRUTH.A lost, aimless and hard-drinking Ben Hope has wandered back to his old haunt in Ireland. The ex-SAS soldier is searching for peace, but trouble soon appears when Kirsten Hall, a young journalist, is brutally murdered right in front of him. Unable to prevent it, Ben is driven by guilt to hunt down the killers...Categorized as:
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![Treachery: A Novel by S.J. Parris]()
Treachery: A Novel by S.J. Parris
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAugust, 1585. A relentless enemy. A treacherous conspiracy. Elizabethan England is on the brink of war. Sir Francis Drake is preparing to launch a daring expedition against the Spanish when a murder aboard his ship changes everything.Giordano Bruno agrees to hunt the killer down, only to find that more than one deadly plot is brewing in Plymouth’s murky underworld... -
![The Rising Sea by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown]()
The Rising Sea by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEverywhere, the waters are rising--and that is just the beginning of the world's peril, unless the NUMA crew can beat the clock. The thrilling new NUMA Files novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure... -
![The Cult of Venus: Templars and the Ancient Goddess by David S. Brody]()
The Cult of Venus: Templars and the Ancient Goddess by David S. Brody
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHistorians Cameron Thorne and Amanda Spencer-Gunn discover a 14th-century journal which confirms a long-rumored historical The medieval Church outlawed the Knights Templar because the warrior monks were secretly worshiping the ancient Goddess...Categorized as:
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![The Amber Secret by David Leadbeater]()
The Amber Secret by David Leadbeater
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA vanished relic. A deadly prize. The half-mad explorer Dante Caruso swears he’s found a fabled Russian relic called the Amber Room, and he’s attracting the wrong kind of attention. A ruthless team of Ukrainian relic hunters called R24 has kidnapped him and his family; they want to know where the Amber Room is—and they’ll spill blood to find it...Categorized as:
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![Dark Stars by C.S. Quinn]()
Dark Stars by C.S. Quinn
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Great Fire has reduced London to smouldering embers. From the ashes, thief taker Charlie Tuesday is drawn to investigate a string of strange murders. Mutilated corpses are washing up at Deptford, each marked with a dire astrological prediction. But only London’s best crime-solver realises the killer’s deadly offerings will soon unleash a devastating force on England... -
![The Devil Colony by James Rollins]()
The Devil Colony by James Rollins
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsDeep in the Rocky Mountains, a gruesome discovery — hundreds of mummified bodies — stir international attention and fervent controversy. Despite doubts to the bodies’ origins, the local Native American Heritage Commission lays claim to the prehistoric remains, along with the strange artifacts found in the same cavern: gold plates inscribed with an unfathomable script... -
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![The Ark Files by Luke Richardson]()
The Ark Files by Luke Richardson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsImagine a secret manuscript that could change the world, and you’re the only person who knows where it is.Professional treasure hunter EDEN BLACK is no stranger to action. After all, the artifacts she spends her life returning to their rightful owners aren’t always easy to access.When Eden’s father dies in a plane crash, her life’s turned upside down...Categorized as:
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![Celtic Empire by Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler]()
Celtic Empire by Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsAn ancient mystery becomes an all-too-real modern threat for Dirk Pitt and his colleagues, in an extraordinary adventure novel in one of suspense fiction's most beloved series.The murder of a team of U.N. scientists while investigating mysterious deaths in El Salvador. A deadly collision in the waterways off Detroit. An attack from tomb raiders on an archeological site along the Nile... -
![The Doomsday Key by James Rollins, Peter Jay Fernandez]()
The Doomsday Key by James Rollins, Peter Jay Fernandez
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsAt Princeton University, a famed geneticist dies inside a biohazard lab. In Rome, a Vatican archaeologist is found dead in St. Peters Basilica. In Africa, a US Senator's son is slain outside a Red Cross camp. Three murders on three continents bear a horrifying connection: all the victims are marked by a Druidic pagan cross burned into their flesh... -
![The Last Monument by Michael C. Grumley]()
The Last Monument by Michael C. Grumley
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOne small handwritten letter,Sent from a dark, remote corner of the planet,And lost in the system for sixty years,Is about to change the entire human race.Outside Denver, Colorado, Joe Rickards stands over a small aircraft wreckage, studying burnt remains still smoldering in a field of freshly fallen snow..Categorized as:
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![The Eye of God by James Rollins]()
The Eye of God by James Rollins
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsThe crash of a U.S. military research satellite in the remote wilds of Mongolia triggers an explosive search for the valuable cargo it holds: a code-black physics project connected to the study of dark energy, the energy connected to the birth of our universe... -
![The Medici Return by Steve Berry]()
The Medici Return by Steve Berry
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom celebrated New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry comes the latest installment in his wildly popular Cotton Malone series --- an adventure that takes Cotton to Italy and Tuscany to solve a five hundred year old mystery...Categorized as:
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![The Temple Legacy by D.C. Macey]()
The Temple Legacy by D.C. Macey
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeven hundred years ago, in a time of war and betrayal, Europe’s greatest treasure disappeared. The men who guarded it vanished into history.In Edinburgh today, former élite British Military Intelligence officer Sam Cameron has turned to the quieter world of archaeology. Together with young church minister Helen Johnson, he leads his students on a field trip...Categorized as:
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![Hidden in Time by Michael R. Phillips]()
Hidden in Time by Michael R. Phillips
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Rift in Time #2: Hidden in Time" follows the search for the Ark of the Covenant. Adam Livingstone's team successfully removes and transports Noah's Ark down Mt. Ararat while the world watches in awe...Categorized as:
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![The Blooding by James McGee]()
The Blooding by James McGee
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHawkwood finds himself behind enemy lines in America during the war of 1812—for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden and Patrick O'Brien1812: Matthew Hawkwood, soldier turned spy, is stranded behind enemy lines, in America, a country at war with Britain... -
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![The Patmos Enigma by Ken Fry]()
The Patmos Enigma by Ken Fry
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA mysterious man walking the earth for millennia...And a discovery we might not be ready for...UK #1 BESTSELLING CHRISTIAN FANTASY, RELIGIOUS FANTASY & BIBLICAL FICTION.With the success of his UK bestselling and award winning religious mystery, The Lazarus Succession, Ken Fry once again crafts a cunning and explosive historical thriller unlike any you've read before.Tel Aviv, Israel...Categorized as:
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![Cabal of the Westford Knight: Templar's at the Newport Tower by David S. Brody]()
Cabal of the Westford Knight: Templar's at the Newport Tower by David S. Brody
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA modern-day mystery novel rooted in recently-discovered ancient artifacts left by Templar Knights during a secret mission to North America in 1398. Attorney Cameron Thorne is thrust into a bloody tug-of-war involving secret societies, treasure hunters and keepers of the secrets of the Jesus bloodline...Categorized as:
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![The Romanov Ransom by Clive Cussler, Robin Burcell]()
The Romanov Ransom by Clive Cussler, Robin Burcell
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTreasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo's search for a Romanov fortune brings them into perilous contact with an ambitious neo-Nazi clan, in the thrilling adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. In 1918, a ransom of enormous size was paid to free the Romanovs from the Bolsheviks, but, as history knows, the Romanovs died anyway... -
![The Gray Ghost by Clive Cussler, Robin Burcell]()
The Gray Ghost by Clive Cussler, Robin Burcell
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn 1906, a groundbreaking Rolls-Royce prototype known as the Grey Ghost vanishes from the streets of Manchester, England, and it is only the lucky intervention of an American detective named Isaac Bell that prevents it from being lost forever... -
![The Secret of the Stones by Ernest Dempsey]()
The Secret of the Stones by Ernest Dempsey
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsLibrarian note: Older covers for this edition can be found here: 4-Jan-2014, 29-Nov-2012.They tried to kill him to cover up an ancient secret. Now Sean Wyatt is plunged head first into a race against time to save his best friend and the lives of billions.A four thousand year old mystery lurks in the hills of Georgia... -
![Havana Storm by Clive Cussler]()
Havana Storm by Clive Cussler
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsDirk Pitt returns, in the thrilling new novel from the grand master of adventure and number one New York Times best-selling author.While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in something even more dangerous - a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba... -
![The Valhalla Prophecy by Andy McDermott]()
The Valhalla Prophecy by Andy McDermott
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsNina and Eddie have been thinking about taking a break to start a family. The IHA has nothing major going on at the moment and Nina has been offered a large advance to write a book-it might be the perfect time for a sabbatical. But those dreams are quickly dashed when the new U.N... -
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Sacrilege by S.J. Parris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA gripping historical thriller set in sixteenth-century England and centered on the highly secretive cult of Saint Thomas Becket, the twelfth-century archbishop murdered in Canterbury Cathedral. London, summer of 1584: Radical philosopher, ex-monk, and spy Giordano Bruno suspects he is being followed by an old enemy...Categorized as:
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![Pirate: Fargo Adventures #8 by Clive Cussler, Robin Burcell]()
Pirate: Fargo Adventures #8 by Clive Cussler, Robin Burcell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratings'Delivers the action and thrills expected. The best book to date featuring the married treasure hunters' Daily Mail From Arizona to Jamaica to England, husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo unravel another ancient and cryptic mystery. An 800-year-old treasure . . . An ancient cypher wheel . . . A brutal murder . . -
![The Solomon Curse by Clive Cussler, Russell Blake]()
The Solomon Curse by Clive Cussler, Russell Blake
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe outstanding new Fargo adventure from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.There are many rumors about the bay off Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Some say it was the site of the lost empire of the Solomon king and that great treasure lies beneath the waters... -
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![The Bootlegger by Clive Cussler, Justin Scott]()
The Bootlegger by Clive Cussler, Justin Scott
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDetective Isaac Bell returns in the extraordinary new adventure in the #1 New York Times–bestselling series. It is 1920, and both Prohibition and bootlegging are in full swing... -
![The Book of Love by Kathleen McGowan]()
The Book of Love by Kathleen McGowan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMaureen Paschal thought she might rest and work on her book after discovering the gospel written by Mary Magdalene that revealed Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married. The truth of their story rocked the world and made Maureen a target of those who did not like her discovery and a heroine to those who did... -
![The Tower by Simon Toyne]()
The Tower by Simon Toyne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAfter the rise comes the fallWhen a cyber-attack at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland disables the Hubble telescope and the Nobel Prize-winning scientist in charge disappears, the only clues left behind are a cryptic countdown clock and a chilling message displayed on the missing man's computer: Mankind Must Look No Further... -
![Vessel by John Bowen, Craig Beck]()
Vessel by John Bowen, Craig Beck
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen Holly Reilly finds herself on the run carrying a piece of technology with the potential to change what it even means to be human, she calls the only person she trusts with the skills necessary to keep her alive, her estranged husband, Gabriel... -
![The History of Things to Come by Duncan Simpson]()
The History of Things to Come by Duncan Simpson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe mind of a genius can hold the darkest of secrets A razor-sharp thriller A Bosnian gangster is gunned down in a packed London restaurant. In his possession is a notebook once belonging to Isaac Newton. This is just the latest in a series of shocking crimes connected to objects once belonging to the famous scientist. The police are stumped and the pressure for an arrest is mounting... -
![Three Tales from the World of Cotton Malone: The Balkan Escape, The Devil's Gold, and The Admiral's Mark by Steve Berry]()
Three Tales from the World of Cotton Malone: The Balkan Escape, The Devil's Gold, and The Admiral's Mark by Steve Berry
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSteve Berry’s bestselling thrillers have mesmerized suspense fans around the world, but his novels alone can’t contain all the exciting exploits of death-defying agent Cotton Malone and his smart, sexy sidekick, Cassiopeia Vitt. Catch all the action between the blockbusters in this trio of suspenseful short stories that capture Cotton and Cassiopeia at their history-hunting, heart-stopping best... -
![Toward the Gleam by T.M. Doran]()
Toward the Gleam by T.M. Doran
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBetween the two world wars, on a hike in the English countryside, Professor John Hill takes refuge from a violent storm in a cave. There he nearly loses his life, but he also makes an astonishing discovery an ancient manuscript housed in a cunningly crafted metal box...Categorized as:
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![The Diaries Of Pontius Pilate by Joseph Max Lewis]()
The Diaries Of Pontius Pilate by Joseph Max Lewis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Diaries of Pontius Pilate opens when a member of an archeological team is murdered along the shores of the Dead Sea. We learn that the murderer and victim are both spies, observing the expedition and grappling with the fact that the team has just discovered some controversial artifacts... -
![Secrets in Zarahemla by Sariah S. Wilson]()
Secrets in Zarahemla by Sariah S. Wilson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs she hangs upside-down in a hunter's snare, Kiah feels a wave of fear as her captor comes into view. By his looks, as appealing as they are, the tall Lamanite is the mortal enemy of Kiah and her people. She can't hope that her father, Captain Moroni, and his Nephite soldiers will rescue her — the strong-willed young woman has wandered well beyond the safe borders of Zarahemla...Categorized as:
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![The Key by Simon Toyne]()
The Key by Simon Toyne
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsHunted. Hounded. Haunted.She is the most important person in the world. She is "The Key".Journalist Liv Adamsen has escaped from the highly secretive Citadel at the heart of the ancient city of Ruin and now lies in isolation, staring at hospital walls as blank as her memory. Despite her inability to recall her past, something strange is stirring within her...Categorized as:
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![The Pharaoh's Secret: A Novel from the Numa Files by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown]()
The Pharaoh's Secret: A Novel from the Numa Files by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe dazzling new novel in the #1 "New York Times" bestselling NUMA(r) Files series from the grand master of adventure. Kurt and Joe tangle with the most determined enemy they ve ever encountered when a ruthless power broker schemes to build a new Egyptian empire as glorious as those of the Pharaohs... -
![Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade by Oliver Bowden, Andrew Holmes]()
Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade by Oliver Bowden, Andrew Holmes
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsNiccolo Polo, father of Marco, will finally reveal the story he has kept secret all his life—the story of Altair, one of the brotherhood's most extraordinary assassins.Altair embarks on a formidable mission—one that takes him throughout the Holy Land and shows him the true meaning of the Assassin's Creed... -
![The Lost Throne by Chris Kuzneski]()
The Lost Throne by Chris Kuzneski
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsCarved into the towering cliffs of central Greece, the Metéora monasteries are all but inaccessible. Holy Trinity is the most isolated, its sacred brotherhood the guardians of a secret that has been protected for centuries.In the dead of night, the holy retreat is attacked by an elite group of warriors carrying ancient weapons... -
![The Kingdom by Clive Cussler, Grant Blackwood]()
The Kingdom by Clive Cussler, Grant Blackwood
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsThe husband-and-wife team of Sam and Remi Fargo are used to hunting for treasure, but they aren't used to hunting for people--until an investigator friend of their goes missing and they promise to search for him... -
![The Secret of Excalibur by Andy McDermott]()
The Secret of Excalibur by Andy McDermott
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe third brilliant adventure thriller featuring archaeologist Nina Wilde, in which Nina must find Excalibur, King Arthur's beloved sword. Said to make whoever holds it unstoppable in battle, the sword Excalibur has been coveted across the ages, and thought lost for over a thousand years. With a cryptic message to archaeologist Nina Wilde, this may be about to change... -
![A Rift in Time by Michael R. Phillips]()
A Rift in Time by Michael R. Phillips
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this riveting end-times thriller, Michael Phillips explores an intriguing twist on events leading to the new millennium. In his quest for the hidden truths of the Bible, Adam encounters mystery, danger, and unexpected quandaries of the soul...
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