The Map: Twelve Adventure Thrillers

by J.R. Rain

Bundle of four bestselling adventure novels by J.R. Rain, THE LOST ARKIn a lonely bar in eastern Turkey, ex-National Geographic photojournalist Sam Ward is hired to find an eccentric professor who disappeared high atop Mount Ararat, fabled resting spot of Noah's Ark. Accompanied by the professor's beautiful daughter, archaeologist Faye Roberts, Sam soon stumbles upon a secret stronghold―a base of operation for unleashing hell on earth. Now running for their lives, Sam and company are about to come face-to-face with the greatest archaeological discovery of all time...THE SPEARLegend has it that whoever possesses the Holy Lance that pierced Christ's side at the Crucifixion―and unlocks the spear's devastating powers―holds in his hands the fate of the world. Ten years after serving in World War II in the British Special Service Brigade―and now teaching history at a military academy―Major Allan Quatermain is asked to perform one last mission. MI6 has received intel that a renegade band of Nazi holdouts is seeking the powerful Spear of Destiny. Worse, that Hitler himself might be alive and well...and orchestrating a return to the world's stage. Now, Her Majesty's Secret Service turns to Major Allan Quatermain, a grizzled war veteran and military historian with a pedigree of adventure, to find the spear first and bring Hitler back...dead or alive.JUDAS SILVERSomeone is stealing the cursed thirty coins paid to betray Christ. Disturbed by these events, the Vatican hires our hero, antiquities thief, Trey Jordan. Trey's mission is find the coins first. And to combat the dark power contained within the cursed coins, Trey will be entrusted with a powerful weapon of his own, a weapon hidden deep with the Vatican's secret vaults. As the adventure begins, he will team up with a past lover, the beautiful numismatist Eve Roberts, a coin collector herself and owner of one of the cursed Judas Coins. Their search begins with a famous sunken ship and will lead to a bizarre castle located in the middle of a Scottish loch. And waiting at every turn is the mysterious Draken, whose dark power multiplies with the acquisition of each new coin...LOST EDENJack Rome, working at the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, is approached by a young woman with a very unusual story, a story that reaches back through the ages. The woman also looks frustratingly familiar, and as Jack realizes just who she is, he finds himself thrown into a world of spies, hunters, lost history...and a search for something beyond his wildest imagination. Now the race is on to find the true Garden of Eden―as one ruthless Russian billionaire, dying of a rare disease, will stop at nothing to find the Tree of Life and its alleged healing oils.

1814 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 22, 2013

About the author

J.R. Rain is the author of 110 novels and counting. He lives on an island in the Pacific Northwest, where he's hard at work on his next novel... and fighting off sparkly vampires.

Reviews

[Clinton Gann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not bad for a collection of adventure stories from J.R. Rain.

[Myra Wray · Rating 5 out of 5]

Once again I have found a good book in this story. I found it hard to put it down until the end.

[Jayne]

I just could not finish this book.

[Lauren · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a collection of four stories. I'm not a big fan of historical indiana jones type stories. However if you like those, this will be right up your ally.