Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings

by Unknown Author

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Reviews

[Les Hopper · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was delighted to discover this ‘lost’ novel, having enjoyed the escapism of the original series of books.

This one suffered a little from the source material. It’s a very good version of what it is, a novelisation of a computer game, but with that comes some challenges around the constant shift from level/chapter to level/chapter and the mechanism for doing so.

Occasionally characters will literally roll out of a bush or drop out of a tree to deliver information leading to the next location and then disappear again, and Indy is faced with a group of nazis or similar to fight more frequently than seems plausible for even an action story.

However, if you can overlook that then you’ll have a good time and if they want to write any more Indy books they can count me in!

[Christopher Lutz · Rating 4 out of 5]

A “lost” adaptation of the late 2000’s video game of the same name. Released for free a couple years ago by its author. Indiana Jones goes on the trail of the Staff of Moses taking him from San Francisco to the jungles of Panama to the Himalayas. You can definitely feel the video game origins of the story with the occasional side quests or puzzles to solve, but that format lends itself well to Indiana Jones who is the hero always in over his head getting out of one scrape after another. The story leans more heavily into the mystical than the movies especially at the novel’s climax, but it works. Finding the staff and the final showdown with the Germans was the best part. My only issue was that it ended rather abruptly with no wrap up scene with Marcus or something. If you’re an Indy fan definitely check this out.

[Wayne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rob Macgregor's lost last Indiana Jones novel was released as an audiobook on his podcast "The Mystical Underground" in 2022. But dedicated Indiana Jones fans transcribed it into an eBook that is available with the blessing of the author.

This was a fun fast paced ride. It's what you'd expect from an Indiana Jones novel. To be honest, I got the impression that the new Dial of Destiny Indiana Jones movie script started with this book. There's a lot of similarities, including the villain Magnus Voller. The acts are similar, but the story is very much different.

[Blake Farrell · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 stars because it exists at all and Rob MacGregor did the best he could with the source material he had but really, not great. The storyline follows the video game and honestly only makes sense in that format. It’s still Indiana Jones so it’s a win!