review by showhost
Mix of Indiana
Jones and Davinci. A conspiracy thriller, 600+ pages long but it ran out of
steam.
Starts well enough, 1939 Siberia in a brutal prison camp
and Lena Orlova escapes with her lover, she knows a safe place to hide. A cave
hidden behind a frozen waterfall in the frozen, bone chilling wilderness, where
lies the legendary altar of bones. Lena is the keeper of the alter and must
protect it.
Fast forward to present day and San Francisco where Zoe,
Lena’s granddaughter, unwittingly becomes the next keeper after the murder of
her grandmother.
Zoe soon finds herself fearing for her life as the
assassins start the chase , backed by government agents and powerful business
people. They want the secret of youth behind the alter of bones.
Zoe is befriended by Ryan O’Malley whose father was part
of the JFK assassination plot, a plot which was linked to the alter of bones (as
well as Marilyn Munroe and Rasputin the Mad Monk).
So it’s lots of shoot em up & wild chase scenes and
just a sprinkle of sex (the stuff all unbelievable, farfetched plots are made of
ie James Bond, Indiana Jones). The beginning drew me in and I had high hopes I
thought I had found another Dan Brown (I loved the Davinci Code), but for me it
started to lose steam and the plot about the fountain of youth unbelievable
(roll my eyes and groan kind of unbelievable). Yes, some of you out there will
say, so was Dan Browns Davinci far fetched but I found that plot much more plausible to the
point I googled things like the paintings mentioned in the book to have a look. If
you like escapism in the form of Indiana then give it a go (I did enjoy the
Indiana films as I do the James Bond films but I didn’t want to read the books). Who's pseudonym is Philip Carter I can't find out who this author really is?
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