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James Acton Thrillers #1
The Protocol
For two thousand years the Triarii have protected us, influencing history from the crusades to the discovery of America. Descendent from the Roman Empire, they pervade every level of society, and are now in a race with our own government to retrieve an ancient artifact thought to have been lost forever.
Caught in the middle is archaeology professor James Acton, relentlessly hunted by the elite Delta Force, under orders to stop at nothing to possess what he has found, and the Triarii, equally determined to prevent the discovery from falling into the wrong hands.
With his students and friends dying around him, Acton flees to find the one person who might be able to help him, but little does he know he may actually be racing directly into the hands of an organization he knows nothing about…
Caught in the middle is archaeology professor James Acton, relentlessly hunted by the elite Delta Force, under orders to stop at nothing to possess what he has found, and the Triarii, equally determined to prevent the discovery from falling into the wrong hands.
With his students and friends dying around him, Acton flees to find the one person who might be able to help him, but little does he know he may actually be racing directly into the hands of an organization he knows nothing about…
335 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2010
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J. Robert Kennedy
100 books297 followersWith over one million books sold, award winning and USA Today bestselling author J. Robert Kennedy has been ranked by Amazon as the #1 Bestselling Action Adventure novelist based upon combined sales. He is the author of over fifty international bestsellers including the smash hit James Acton Thrillers. He lives with his wife and daughter and writes full-time.
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July 18, 2021
Eh. I think I'm being generous with 3 stars, more like 2.5. This is the 3rd book I've read in the series and the writing is not the best. Having read later books I know it doesn't really get any better. There were also quite a few mistakes that got by the editing ppl as well. For instance, a minor character being described as living in New Mexico but later on he lives in South Texas. That kind of thing really annoys me. So yeah I won't be reading any more from this author.
June 9, 2014
I read this because crystal skull stories fascinate me: I love to read them and write them too. The prose in The Protocol is simple, direct, nothing to inspire you. Characters are simplistic without much depth, but that's normal for these types of action-adventure books. I was entertained for a good part of it. James Acton served the story well enough. If you like chase scenes and a high-octane action page turner, this is for you. Good guys vs. bad guys; nothing ground-breaking going on here. Kennedy is a decent writer and weaves a good intrigue (although I found his overuse of exclamation points on practically every page a bit much, but that's just me). I was disappointed in the crystal skulls though. They were just objects and had little mystical charm, mystery, or even exhibited any real power for that matter.
April 17, 2015
Here is a great action/adventure novel with lots of surprises, believable characters, guns and ammo, helicopter/car chase, madness and mayhem. Move over Indiana Jones! Hoping for the next book soon!
Audio performer is my new favorite. Superior voice quality, terrific character delineation, emotional variants well portrayed. This artist is no ham-bone, but very well suited to a fast-paced novel like this.
Audio performer is my new favorite. Superior voice quality, terrific character delineation, emotional variants well portrayed. This artist is no ham-bone, but very well suited to a fast-paced novel like this.
November 19, 2018
It’s not awful, and mostly just silly. It’s like an action b-movie, the kind of thing Gerard Butler would star in, with a Dan Brown-esqe secret organization. It was also a little too violent for my tastes. I can see why people would enjoy this, but I probably won’t read anything else by this author.
December 22, 2016
London, England. British museum. What is the Triarii Protocol?
Andes Mts., Peru, Garcia, Professor James Acton & his students were at a dig site.
Ft. Bragg, NC. 1st. Special Forces (Delta Team Bravo). What did Colonel Thomas Clancy want
Sergeant Major Burt “Big Dog” Dawson, Niner, Bryson, Stucco, Casey & the other team members to do?
SA Jasper & SA Lambert went to see Professor Gregory ”Greg” Milton (BMF, Dean, St. Paul’s U, Maryland) with some very bad news.
Professor Acton was also missing.
What happened to William “Billy” Guthrie?
Why is Professor Laura Palmer (British Museum, Archaeology, Ancient History, Literature, University College London) being questioned?
I did not receive any type of compensation for reading & reviewing this book. While I receive free books from publishers & authors, I am under no obligation to write a positive review. Only an honest one.
A very awesome book cover, great & writing style. A very well written historical fiction action adventure book. It was very easy for me to read/follow from start/finish & never a dull moment. There were no grammar/typo errors, nor any repetitive or out of line sequence sentences. Lots of exciting scenarios, with several twists/turns & a great set of unique characters to keep track of. This could also make another great action adventure movie, or better yet a mini TV series. To be continued. Kind of hard to follow along at times but it made sense at the end. That said I will rate it at 5 stars.
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Tony Parsons MSW (Washburn)
Andes Mts., Peru, Garcia, Professor James Acton & his students were at a dig site.
Ft. Bragg, NC. 1st. Special Forces (Delta Team Bravo). What did Colonel Thomas Clancy want
Sergeant Major Burt “Big Dog” Dawson, Niner, Bryson, Stucco, Casey & the other team members to do?
SA Jasper & SA Lambert went to see Professor Gregory ”Greg” Milton (BMF, Dean, St. Paul’s U, Maryland) with some very bad news.
Professor Acton was also missing.
What happened to William “Billy” Guthrie?
Why is Professor Laura Palmer (British Museum, Archaeology, Ancient History, Literature, University College London) being questioned?
I did not receive any type of compensation for reading & reviewing this book. While I receive free books from publishers & authors, I am under no obligation to write a positive review. Only an honest one.
A very awesome book cover, great & writing style. A very well written historical fiction action adventure book. It was very easy for me to read/follow from start/finish & never a dull moment. There were no grammar/typo errors, nor any repetitive or out of line sequence sentences. Lots of exciting scenarios, with several twists/turns & a great set of unique characters to keep track of. This could also make another great action adventure movie, or better yet a mini TV series. To be continued. Kind of hard to follow along at times but it made sense at the end. That said I will rate it at 5 stars.
Thank you for the free Amazon Digital Services LLC; book
Tony Parsons MSW (Washburn)
October 28, 2018
The PROTOCOL
J. ROBERT KENNEDY
Reviewed by Roy Murry, Author
A face-pace thriller where every chapter hooks you into another. The lead character ACTION says it ALL.
A global cult believes that their artifact is a powerful object and can control the fate of the world. Professor Action and his group of architecture students find a fact similar or the real thing in a Peruvian excavation dig.
There is a leak of the find, and all hell breaks out. A battle by an influential ex-cult member begins to retrieve the object that placed together with others can change the world or destroy it.
In the middle of the war are Action, the cult, a powerful nation, and the English police department. All the best firepower is used to retrieve the object of one man's desire rule the world.
This Thriller was well thought out and smoothly put together keeping the reader on edge. Read in two sittings, and I could not put the Kindle book down.
I'll get back to another Kennedy book later.
J. ROBERT KENNEDY
Reviewed by Roy Murry, Author
A face-pace thriller where every chapter hooks you into another. The lead character ACTION says it ALL.
A global cult believes that their artifact is a powerful object and can control the fate of the world. Professor Action and his group of architecture students find a fact similar or the real thing in a Peruvian excavation dig.
There is a leak of the find, and all hell breaks out. A battle by an influential ex-cult member begins to retrieve the object that placed together with others can change the world or destroy it.
In the middle of the war are Action, the cult, a powerful nation, and the English police department. All the best firepower is used to retrieve the object of one man's desire rule the world.
This Thriller was well thought out and smoothly put together keeping the reader on edge. Read in two sittings, and I could not put the Kindle book down.
I'll get back to another Kennedy book later.
December 7, 2018
This is like Indiana Jones on steroids as James Acton, archeologist is thrown into the deep when a discover made deep in Peru sets off a chain of events that he could never have seen. Chased from country to country, friends and strangers that he talks to put in danger as they seek to retrieve the item that he has dug up.
A well-armed military group attack his camp then pursue him to England. They're given a simple objective: get the item, kill of everyone involved but things don't go quite as planned, causing mayhem in the process.
But they aren't the only group interested in the object. A far older group are also eager to retrieve the artefact, the purpose unknown and their existence only known by a select few. They have embedded themselves into all walks of life so they can be as prepared as possible for when an artefact is discovered.
Who will get to James Acton and his discovery first? And who, if any will survive the events.
A great mixture of thrills, suspense and chases. With events being portrayed both in the past and current day. The ride is wild.
A well-armed military group attack his camp then pursue him to England. They're given a simple objective: get the item, kill of everyone involved but things don't go quite as planned, causing mayhem in the process.
But they aren't the only group interested in the object. A far older group are also eager to retrieve the artefact, the purpose unknown and their existence only known by a select few. They have embedded themselves into all walks of life so they can be as prepared as possible for when an artefact is discovered.
Who will get to James Acton and his discovery first? And who, if any will survive the events.
A great mixture of thrills, suspense and chases. With events being portrayed both in the past and current day. The ride is wild.
June 13, 2016
While exciting, I missed the camaraderie between Acton, Palmer, Reading, and Delta Force in the later novels. Starting from the beginning though gives the background to certain moments in those later novels that left me scratching my head in confusion. I'm excited to begin the journey from the beginning and explore the nuances of the characters' own journeys into what they had become in the first book that had so enthralled me.
November 8, 2016
It took me a while to get into the story, but once It spurred my interest, I began to enjoy it and look forward to each new chapter. J.Robert Kennedy does a masterful job building the plot and keeping surprises for appropriate junctures in the story. The main character, Professor James Acton, is very likable and believable. The officers from the New Scotland Yard were also well presented, especially DCI Reading. I definitely look forward to reading more of Kennedy's novels in the Acton series.
January 16, 2016
Took me on a great adventure.
September 24, 2023
It got a little slower about half-way through but that happens sometimes, even in the best thrillers. It was difficult, at times, to tell the good/good guys from the bad/good guys. You'll have to read it to find out that that means. It's the first of many by Kennedy and I look forward to reading more.
September 8, 2020
1212 AD London, England. Lord Richard Baxter’s home has been grazed to the ground, his wife and daughter trapped in the carnage. His home was a gift from King John when Lord Baxter saved the king’s mistress from brigands.
London, England Present Day. Clive Obrok mans the security monitors at the central security station of the British Museum. His friend, Rodney Underwood rings the buzzer and Clive buzzes him up. But then Rodney shoots Clive in the chest with a tranquilizer dart.
A week earlier in the Andes Mountains, Peru. Archaeologist Professor James Acton and his students are sifting through the soil in a bid to uncover what James believes to be an ancient Incan city. Just then one of his local guides, Garcia, who’s been digging through a cave wall, runs towards him screaming like he’s seen a ghost 👻
Meanwhile back at NSA Headquarters in Maryland, a dictionary software has been programmed to listen in on phone conversations and flags calls with keywords that suggest a threat.
A phone call has just been intercepted and is being reviewed. Transcripts from the call indicate the callers to be Robert Andrews, Professor James’s student, and his brother, John Andrews. Robert has just shared with his brother their findings at the dig. Apparently, Acton and his team unearthed a well-preserved crystal skull in the cave.
The transcript is immediately delivered to Steve Masters, a longtime friend of Jackson, President of the United States. Masters also works for the president as Director of Special Operations.
When Master sees the contents of the mail he’s just received, he quickly calls the White House Chief of Staff, Lesley Darbinger. Darbinger is good friends with the President—they met at Yale and have been close since.
Across Washington DC on 17th Street, eighteen-year-old Billy Guthrie is rushing off from his house to the White House. It’s his first day as an intern, and Billy can’t be late or his father won’t let him hear the last of it.
Billy’s father is a former Speaker of the House. On the first on his job, Billy accidentally stumbles onto a classified document that puts his life in danger.
Delta Force, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Command Sergeant Major Burt “Big Dog” Dawson is having a family barbecue with his team and family when he gets a call from his commanding officer, Colonel Thomas Clancy, the head of Dawson’s unit. Clancy informs Dawson that his team has been requested for a mission—the Colonel has no idea what the mission is.
The mission is highly classified, and Dawson isn’t privy to all the information. Apparently, a group of domestic terrorists stole a highly classified defense project, killed the guards transporting them in the process, and then fled with the stolen items to a training camp set up in Peru.
From there, the group is planning attacks on American targets home and abroad. Dawson and his team have been ordered to infiltrate the camp, interrogate the prisoners and eliminate them if they are on the President’s Termination List.
Here’s the weird part—the names on the list are Professor Acton and his students—with special orders to execute the Professor once the item has been retrieved. Dawson finds the idea of eliminating Americans on foreign soil revolting.
But Dawson is only acting on the orders of his higher-ups—Professor Acton is being framed for the murder of guards who were assigned to transport the DARPA project, and so he must be captured alive.
Though the reader has learned early on about the identity of the real perps behind this act, Dawson has no idea he’s been fed wrong intel by his superiors.
Back in Peru, when Acton realizes people are willing to kill because of the skull, he has to safeguard the skull and save himself and his students.
At the White House, Detective Wheeler and his partner, Detective Justin Schultz of Washington DC Police Department are called in to investigate the murder of one of the White House staff. As they dig deeper, they both unravel clues that might connect them to the case of the missing Professor Acton.
What’s so special about this ancient artifact that people are willing to kill to get their hands on it?
There’s so much going on in this book, that I couldn’t put it down. I’d love to read more of DCI Hugh Reading in subsequent books. He cracked me up real good.😂
Perfect for everyone: armchair travelers, seasoned travelers, anyone with a passion for artifacts, relics, and history. Highly recommend!
London, England Present Day. Clive Obrok mans the security monitors at the central security station of the British Museum. His friend, Rodney Underwood rings the buzzer and Clive buzzes him up. But then Rodney shoots Clive in the chest with a tranquilizer dart.
A week earlier in the Andes Mountains, Peru. Archaeologist Professor James Acton and his students are sifting through the soil in a bid to uncover what James believes to be an ancient Incan city. Just then one of his local guides, Garcia, who’s been digging through a cave wall, runs towards him screaming like he’s seen a ghost 👻
Meanwhile back at NSA Headquarters in Maryland, a dictionary software has been programmed to listen in on phone conversations and flags calls with keywords that suggest a threat.
A phone call has just been intercepted and is being reviewed. Transcripts from the call indicate the callers to be Robert Andrews, Professor James’s student, and his brother, John Andrews. Robert has just shared with his brother their findings at the dig. Apparently, Acton and his team unearthed a well-preserved crystal skull in the cave.
The transcript is immediately delivered to Steve Masters, a longtime friend of Jackson, President of the United States. Masters also works for the president as Director of Special Operations.
When Master sees the contents of the mail he’s just received, he quickly calls the White House Chief of Staff, Lesley Darbinger. Darbinger is good friends with the President—they met at Yale and have been close since.
Across Washington DC on 17th Street, eighteen-year-old Billy Guthrie is rushing off from his house to the White House. It’s his first day as an intern, and Billy can’t be late or his father won’t let him hear the last of it.
Billy’s father is a former Speaker of the House. On the first on his job, Billy accidentally stumbles onto a classified document that puts his life in danger.
Delta Force, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Command Sergeant Major Burt “Big Dog” Dawson is having a family barbecue with his team and family when he gets a call from his commanding officer, Colonel Thomas Clancy, the head of Dawson’s unit. Clancy informs Dawson that his team has been requested for a mission—the Colonel has no idea what the mission is.
The mission is highly classified, and Dawson isn’t privy to all the information. Apparently, a group of domestic terrorists stole a highly classified defense project, killed the guards transporting them in the process, and then fled with the stolen items to a training camp set up in Peru.
From there, the group is planning attacks on American targets home and abroad. Dawson and his team have been ordered to infiltrate the camp, interrogate the prisoners and eliminate them if they are on the President’s Termination List.
Here’s the weird part—the names on the list are Professor Acton and his students—with special orders to execute the Professor once the item has been retrieved. Dawson finds the idea of eliminating Americans on foreign soil revolting.
But Dawson is only acting on the orders of his higher-ups—Professor Acton is being framed for the murder of guards who were assigned to transport the DARPA project, and so he must be captured alive.
Though the reader has learned early on about the identity of the real perps behind this act, Dawson has no idea he’s been fed wrong intel by his superiors.
Back in Peru, when Acton realizes people are willing to kill because of the skull, he has to safeguard the skull and save himself and his students.
At the White House, Detective Wheeler and his partner, Detective Justin Schultz of Washington DC Police Department are called in to investigate the murder of one of the White House staff. As they dig deeper, they both unravel clues that might connect them to the case of the missing Professor Acton.
What’s so special about this ancient artifact that people are willing to kill to get their hands on it?
There’s so much going on in this book, that I couldn’t put it down. I’d love to read more of DCI Hugh Reading in subsequent books. He cracked me up real good.😂
Perfect for everyone: armchair travelers, seasoned travelers, anyone with a passion for artifacts, relics, and history. Highly recommend!
December 3, 2017
Wow, wow, and did I say, WOW??? Incredible book, fantastic action thriller, well-written and happily read!!!
Absolutely breathtaking story! I love that the premise for this story has one foot firmly grounded in the fact that Crystal Skulls do indeed exist. And, that they're also incredible feats of technology, artwork, and limitless possibilities, of potentially alien creation and orientation. The purpose of these skulls around the world continue to taunt us with their hidden secrets and the intentions for their use; however, this story seems incredibly plausible given what little we know about these mysterious and mesmerizing objects.
An "Acton Adventure," is sort of like a modern day mashup of "James Bond," realistic Black Ops missions and objectives, paired up with "Indiana Jones," modern day technology and archeology, and enough excitement and tension to keep you sitting on the edge of your seat on pins and needles, right up until the very end! It has everything, science, action, history, and adventure, and exciting, cutting-edge, modern day warfare. I won't throw out any spoilers, except to say that this book brought everything it promised, to the "party," and then some! Despite there being a multitude of characters, each person had their own thoughts, ideas, flaws, and personalities, and I didn't need a "cheat sheet," at the beginning of this book to keep them separated in my imagination and know who was who. They were all delightfully "alive," and each one was truly and uniquely individual. Nicely done! Well-created locations, characters, details, moods, feelings, world-building, etcetera.
Pull up a chair, grab a book, and dive right in... this story is waiting for you-- in fact, the entire book is "picture perfect," and I'll be surprised if it doesn't get made into a movie sometime soon! Thank you, J. Robert Kennedy, for an extraordinary journey! It just doesn't get any better than this, and I had a marvelous time! Kudos!!!
Absolutely breathtaking story! I love that the premise for this story has one foot firmly grounded in the fact that Crystal Skulls do indeed exist. And, that they're also incredible feats of technology, artwork, and limitless possibilities, of potentially alien creation and orientation. The purpose of these skulls around the world continue to taunt us with their hidden secrets and the intentions for their use; however, this story seems incredibly plausible given what little we know about these mysterious and mesmerizing objects.
An "Acton Adventure," is sort of like a modern day mashup of "James Bond," realistic Black Ops missions and objectives, paired up with "Indiana Jones," modern day technology and archeology, and enough excitement and tension to keep you sitting on the edge of your seat on pins and needles, right up until the very end! It has everything, science, action, history, and adventure, and exciting, cutting-edge, modern day warfare. I won't throw out any spoilers, except to say that this book brought everything it promised, to the "party," and then some! Despite there being a multitude of characters, each person had their own thoughts, ideas, flaws, and personalities, and I didn't need a "cheat sheet," at the beginning of this book to keep them separated in my imagination and know who was who. They were all delightfully "alive," and each one was truly and uniquely individual. Nicely done! Well-created locations, characters, details, moods, feelings, world-building, etcetera.
Pull up a chair, grab a book, and dive right in... this story is waiting for you-- in fact, the entire book is "picture perfect," and I'll be surprised if it doesn't get made into a movie sometime soon! Thank you, J. Robert Kennedy, for an extraordinary journey! It just doesn't get any better than this, and I had a marvelous time! Kudos!!!
January 2, 2020
SPOILERS
In the first chapter alone while the archaeological site was being invaded, I was honestly wondering what would happen, but at the same time, I was thinking there are over 20 more books with this character so he must survive. And he did. I read this book in just a few hours and could not put it down!!
As I was reading, I was wondering, has this been influenced by the Phantom movie (Billy Zane) which also has a storyline about 3 skulls that can cause chaos and damage when they are brought together.
This is the very first book by this author that I have ever read, and I chose to read this book for 3 reasons. 1 is because I am a fan of Dan Brown and Steve Berry and James Rollins, and 2 because the author is Canadian, like me, even if his books do have a USA setting. And 3, because I like the Crystal Skulls.
In the first chapter alone while the archaeological site was being invaded, I was honestly wondering what would happen, but at the same time, I was thinking there are over 20 more books with this character so he must survive. And he did. I read this book in just a few hours and could not put it down!!
As I was reading, I was wondering, has this been influenced by the Phantom movie (Billy Zane) which also has a storyline about 3 skulls that can cause chaos and damage when they are brought together.
This is the very first book by this author that I have ever read, and I chose to read this book for 3 reasons. 1 is because I am a fan of Dan Brown and Steve Berry and James Rollins, and 2 because the author is Canadian, like me, even if his books do have a USA setting. And 3, because I like the Crystal Skulls.
January 7, 2020
A good read. The crystal skulls have always intrigued me. Found this to be a plausible storyline with good characters.
March 22, 2021
The Protocol is the first book in the "James Action" series about, stop me if you've heard this before, a badass archeologist hunting for treasure, and getting mixed up in some bad stuff in between. To call James Action an Indiana Jones clone, would be redundant. It's clear where the inspiration for the books come from. But I don't think derivative necessarily means bad. So the million dollar question is, is it any good? And I really can't say. Nothing about the book stands out as particularly bad, nor great for that matter. But despite owning the first three James Action books already, I'm not planning on reading the second one anytime soon. It's a textbook 2.5 out of five. A nice amount of action, if not to much towards the end, but a jumbled first half made getting into the book a drag. If you like men's adventure and don't mind reading half of a book before it's gets good, give it a go. If not, pass on it.
July 8, 2017
Okay it's a breezy, racy read but I really enjoyed. I tend to skim over many parts but still I felt this was deeply enjoyable. The characters would all really benefit from back stories but since this was the first book in the series, maybe there is more coming in in the next books. I just felt the ending was a little rushed, and quickly wrapped up. Also no mention of what happens to the Special Ops team and a very skittish treatment to the President, not to mention that these kinds of incidents are absolutely impossible in real life. Some back story or historical and research narrative to the skulls would have also helped. But overall, I enjoyed it.
May 16, 2016
its a very good read when the fictional side of the story starts. the story line of acton and how he meets his love, the archaelogical side of the crystal skulls, and of course the triarii race makes for a very good book. the beginning of the book for me i find quite boring as id rather the history / reasons were in the story, rather than the way it is set up. however it soon become a difficult book to put down.
October 30, 2017
Wow! My heart is still pounding! What an exciting read! James Acton is a combination of Jack Bauer, Indiana Jones and Cotton Malone (from Steve Berry's) and although the book has 95 chapters, they are short and keep the action moving quickly. The first several chapters are spent introducing characters important to the story so it took awhile to link them all up but then it was pure action to the end. This was the first book I've read by J Robert Kennedy but it won't be the last.
February 17, 2020
I really enjoyed this action packed book. Yes, there is a lot of killing in this book. All of it seemed necessary to the plot. The version I read had an afterward, that addresses some of the thoughts while reading this book.
Although, as I write this post in Sept 2018, I can see the actual basis for the chain of command and the dissemination of bad information more easily, in these times.
I need to read more real books like this. Less fluff more stuff.
Although, as I write this post in Sept 2018, I can see the actual basis for the chain of command and the dissemination of bad information more easily, in these times.
I need to read more real books like this. Less fluff more stuff.
May 5, 2020
This is the second book of J. Robert Kennedy that I've read and have to admit I loved it. It's a great mix of greed, patriotism, a riveting plot and a spectacular ending.
Review on second reading: If I could give this book 1 000 stars I would have. It's not often that an author gets me so pulled into the plot that I instinctively dodge the bullets flying from the pages.
J. Robert Kennedy: I hope this entire series is so engaging and the body count keeps on climbing.
Review on second reading: If I could give this book 1 000 stars I would have. It's not often that an author gets me so pulled into the plot that I instinctively dodge the bullets flying from the pages.
J. Robert Kennedy: I hope this entire series is so engaging and the body count keeps on climbing.
December 29, 2019
It's a grabber!
This exciting book grabs you from page one and never lets go! Action packed and full of exciting twists, this book demands to be read in one sitting. You will find yourself turning pages faster and faster just to find out what is next. Wonderful book that takes you away from your current surroundings into another, mysterious world.
This exciting book grabs you from page one and never lets go! Action packed and full of exciting twists, this book demands to be read in one sitting. You will find yourself turning pages faster and faster just to find out what is next. Wonderful book that takes you away from your current surroundings into another, mysterious world.
July 4, 2017
A truly great read!!
I had my reservations thinking this is probably one of those books that teased the reader in to buying another suspense with a weak plot and barely readable. Boy was I wrong. I couldn't put the book down. Great read and terrific plot. And yes, I bought the next one in the series.
I had my reservations thinking this is probably one of those books that teased the reader in to buying another suspense with a weak plot and barely readable. Boy was I wrong. I couldn't put the book down. Great read and terrific plot. And yes, I bought the next one in the series.
June 2, 2018
I wasn't sure if I would like this and I was wrong - I devoured this. It was sad in places but I loved the main character and rooted for the good guys to win! Looks like a series with the main character and I'm in! Anyone that likes historic artifacts - believable or not, mystery, action, a bit of romance - this is for you. Highly recommend!
October 29, 2018
This is it!
I hate to compare, but this is like a masterpiece by Cussler, Clancy or Ludlum! I was looking for Dirk Pitt or Al Giordino to show up any minute. I'm very stingy with my stars but this so deserves a 5 star. I'm always pleased to read an author who knows the difference between "then" and "than". Nothing in this book annoyed me. It felt so comfortable reading it.
I hate to compare, but this is like a masterpiece by Cussler, Clancy or Ludlum! I was looking for Dirk Pitt or Al Giordino to show up any minute. I'm very stingy with my stars but this so deserves a 5 star. I'm always pleased to read an author who knows the difference between "then" and "than". Nothing in this book annoyed me. It felt so comfortable reading it.
November 8, 2018
A thoroughly inspirational international, ancient mystical, cult saga
Action galore. Each page bringing a further mouth watering, jgut wrenching turn until you become unsure who is who , which group are the good guys , who are the baddies and who is the maniac behind all the murderous devastation .
Action galore. Each page bringing a further mouth watering, jgut wrenching turn until you become unsure who is who , which group are the good guys , who are the baddies and who is the maniac behind all the murderous devastation .
March 14, 2019
Me lo he pasado francamente bien leyendo esta primera novela de la saga. Es una novela de aventuras, con una narrativa sumamente ágil y con una temática que, pese a no ser nueva, resulta interesante y atractiva.
Exagerada, sí, pero con todos los tintes de una novela de acción y aventuras que hace que pases un buen rato.
Exagerada, sí, pero con todos los tintes de una novela de acción y aventuras que hace que pases un buen rato.
September 14, 2019
Nonstop Action
Great book. Fast paced. Keeps you on the edge of your seat & you feel like your right there in the middle of the action. A budding romance perhaps in the midst of all the action. From Peru to Washington, DC to London and New York too. Can hardly wait to read more by J. Robert Kennedy.
Great book. Fast paced. Keeps you on the edge of your seat & you feel like your right there in the middle of the action. A budding romance perhaps in the midst of all the action. From Peru to Washington, DC to London and New York too. Can hardly wait to read more by J. Robert Kennedy.
September 19, 2019
Excellent thriller, a real page turner.
Build around the anomaly of the crystal skull discoveries, this story begins in the distant past and rapidly moves to a fast moving story set in the present day. The characterization is very well done and the pace of the novel keeps you engaged until the very end. Looking forward to starting the next one in the series.
Build around the anomaly of the crystal skull discoveries, this story begins in the distant past and rapidly moves to a fast moving story set in the present day. The characterization is very well done and the pace of the novel keeps you engaged until the very end. Looking forward to starting the next one in the series.
December 14, 2017
Loved this book! Lots of action and plenty of twists figuring out the connections of all the characters. And of course the mystery of the crystal skulls, true or not? Looking forward to the next James Acton book!
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