I need to read more Charles Brokaw! A "couldn't put it down" action packed thriller, get this one boys n girls, its a gr8 read.
Mike

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A wonderful, fast action story! Charles Brokaw keeps the reader on his toes. If you like thriller/action stories, I predict you'll find you just can't put this book down! I highly recommend it!

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This is the first Brokaw book I read and found it disappointing. I gave it 3 stars, however, because I did manage to finish it. The plot is basic: Linguist professor searches for ancient artifact which he must translate in order to save the world. He is hunted by good guys and bad guys, and accompanied by two women who fight over him, one a colleague type and the other a tough gunslinger. Not much character development, and I really couldn't sympathize with the protagonist. His sexual life was not credible and seemed to be added in to spice up an otherwise ho hum book. I'll try one more, though, just to be fair.

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One of the two BEST of this genre that I've read (about 15)! Action with believability, interesting history, and still has character development. In all a great book.

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I found this first book in the Thomas Lourds series very amateurish. Lourds is a bad cross between Ian Fleming's James Bond and Dan Brown's Robert Langdon.

Lourds finds himself in a race with a megalomaniac Catholic cardinal to find the lost continent of Atlantis. I did enjoy the author's views on the importance of language as well as the African history he included, but I tired quickly of the evil cardinal, his crew of deadly assassins, and Lourds' bed hopping.

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