He had been looking for it his whole life. When he finally found it, it made no sense. Now everyone wants it. Nothing will ever be the same again.
Ripley Gaines, a brilliant archeologist, has spent his life searching for an elusive artifact to prove his controversial theory. What he finds shocks even him. The discovery rewrites human history and promises to change the planet’s future. It has to be suppressed.
The most powerful forces in the world align against him, and a deadly competition for the artifact ensues. Capturing Gaines is not enough; he, and everyone who has seen the artifact, must be killed. His only hope, is to stay alive long enough to decode the Cosega Sequence.
Dig far enough into the past . . . you may just discover the future.
USA TODAY Bestselling Author Brandt Legg uses his unusual real life experiences to create page-turning novels. He’s traveled with CIA agents, dined with senators and congressmen, mingled with astronauts, chatted with governors and presidential candidates, had a private conversation with a Secretary of Defense he still doesn’t like to talk about, hung out with Oscar and Grammy winners, had drinks at the State Department, been pursued by tabloid reporters, and spent a birthday at the White House by invitation from the President of the United States.
At age eight, Legg's father died suddenly, plunging his family into poverty. Two years later, while suffering from crippling migraines, he started in business, and turned a hobby into a multi-million-dollar empire. National media dubbed him the “Teen Tycoon,” and by the mid-eighties, Legg was one of the top young entrepreneurs in America, appearing as high as number twenty-four on the list (when Steve Jobs was #1, Bill Gates #4, and Michael Dell #6). Legg still jokes that he should have gone into computers.
By his twenties, after years of buying and selling businesses, leveraging, and risk-taking, the high-flying Legg became ensnarled in the financial whirlwind of the junk bond eighties. The stock market crashed and a firestorm of trouble came down. The Teen Tycoon racked up more than a million dollars in legal fees, was betrayed by those closest to him, lost his entire fortune, and ended up serving time for financial improprieties.
After a year, Legg emerged from federal prison, chastened and wiser, and began anew. More than twenty-five years later, he’s now using all that hard-earned firsthand knowledge of conspiracies, corruption and high finance to weave his tales. Legg’s books pulse with authenticity.
His series have excited nearly a million readers around the world. Although he refused an offer to make a television movie about his life as a teenage millionaire, his autobiography is in the works. There has also been interest from Hollywood to turn his thrillers into films. With any luck, one day you’ll see your favorite characters on screen.
Legg now writes full time – his favorite endeavor ever! For more information, visit BrandtLegg.com, or to contact Brandt directly, email him: Brandt@BrandtLegg.com, he loves to hear from readers and always responds!
WOW! This was SO good, SO exciting. I've read lots of really great thrillers this year, so much so, that I ought to be all 'thrillered out',but no it appears not. 'Cosega Search' pulled me in hook line and sinker.
Rip Gaines, an archaeologist, and his team, discover an ancient artefact that's so controversial - it's something that could actually re-write history. Government agencies AND the Vatican will stop at nothing to get their hands on it. Rip goes on the run with journalist Gale Asher, taking the artefact with them, and the action never stops from there. It's hard to catch your breath at times - it's exciting, it's also scary in its implications, but it's totally compulsive reading. I finished this book wanting more, so the author has definitely done a great job with this one. More please!
4.5* Brandt Legg a bestselling author writes on the cover: "Dig far enough into the past . . . you may just discover the future". While on a dig in the Blue Ridge Mountains an archeologist Ripley Gaines, discovers an unusual artifact embedded in an eleven-million year old rock preceding the period when mankind first arrives on Earth. As Gaines attempts to discover the significance of the glowing sphere, he is relentlessly pursued by the U.S. government and unknown assassins. Fans of Indian Jones, Da Vinci Code, and Douglas Preston, will find this book extremely fast paced and will be eager to continue the series with Cosega Storm (The Cosega Sequence Book 2). Very entertaining and recommended!
This book is so ridiculously full of ridiculous clichés it might implode at any time while you're reading it. Also, the characters are stereotyped as shrimp and one-dimensional as fish. Their overall stupidity is wonderfully abysmal, too. The plot is as delightfully unrefreshing as it is beautifully repetitive. All in all I would say that this is a Marvelously Subpar Fest (MSF™). But hey, it's not ALL bad. Oh no, it's not. I mean, at least the book was free. So woo-hoo and stuff.
This book is easy to read and the plot moves along at a breakneck pace. It is the first book of a trilogy and most the questions posed in this first volume are nowhere near finding answers. But I won't be finding the answers because the author hasn't made me care enough to bother continuing.
The characters are generally quite two-dimensional - the two main protagonists are starting to be fleshed out by the end of the book, but that is too slow. There are some massive plot holes, and the main characters exhibit abilities which seem unlikely given their backgrounds, and sometimes get out of difficult situations through hard-to-accept occurrences.
That said, I did enjoy the read, and the overarching plot seems interesting, but my level of enjoyment isn't enough to go on to the next book. Not when I have shelves bulging with other unread books.
X-Files meets Da Vinci Code on the way to Tom Clancy's House: If you've read the author's previous trilogy, The Inner Movement, you'll quickly recognize some similar themes and "characters" but, if you haven't, it won't diminish your enjoyment of this series. The narrative drops you rapidly into the action and you are soon swept up in the multifaceted intrigue developing simultaneously with character development. The exposition is seamless, information and back-story unfurling just in time to propel you forward on the author's imaginative vision. It's quite fortunate that the second book had already been released by the time the first book reaches its stunning, and quite literal, cliffhanger in the familiar environs of Taos, New Mexico.
This techno-thriller is a bouillabaisse of Indiana Jones, Cotton Malone and Colton Banyon all in one. This captivating mix of intrigues inevitably makes an exciting drama to enjoy.
Ripley Gaines, is a brilliant archeologist who spends is life searching for an elusive artifact to prove his controversial theory. His latest discovery will change the future of the planet……
Creatively written to engage us, this fast paced saga is quite a page turner from its opening pages, one that holds attention till you reach the last page. After all, add a bit of religious and scientific tone, some bad guys and good guys, lots of chases and bing- bang you can only be in one of those exciting read. If you do not takes this story too seriously and let yourself go with the long chase sequence you will be flipping pages at a rapid pace to catch up…The characters are likeable, the political tits-bits interesting, and the expedition is filled with brilliant imagination making an enjoyable read.
I would have given “Cosega Search” flying colours if it were not for the ending…..there isn’t any….you need to get the sequel…hate that…
If you like mystery and conspiracy thrillers, you are in for an amazing story. The tale begins when a discovery is made during an archaeological dig. Unearthing a very special stone is just the beginning and for Rip Gaines, an inevitable happening when the FBI and several others show an interest in the find. The author twists and turns this story into a grand adventure and one that will have readers searching for book two in the series, Great job in the story and in the author's writing ability which makes reading a pleasure and a compulsion.
I really enjoyed this one, but I should warn you; this is the first in what I believe is a four-piece story. When I was finished reading the first, I instantly bought the second one.
Of course some of the story and the endless hunting for our hero, and the girl, is implaucible. And how the persecutors succseed/fail is written for the readers exitement, not to be taken as a proof for how the world really are.
I believe that most of us have no difficulty believing the conflict between the various intelligence services depicted in this book. And it's just as believable that the church with all of its power would attempt to hide the truth that would destroy it. This is a very intriguing mystery. I'm often disappointed with the first book in a series because so much is left undone. This first book contains a great deal, and just the momentum of the story is enough to carry one to the second book in the series. I've started reading the second book and it's just as good as the first.
Good read, surprised me a little, I was not, for some reason, expecting great things as this is not my normal type of book. I was totally engrossed from the start, not a style of writing I am used to, but I soon forgave some of its small idiosyncrasies and really enjoyed it. Looking forward to the next.
Good science fiction tells a story which is open to interpretation by the reader. Good science fiction also stimulates the imagination. Great science fiction plants seeds of questions in the reader’s mind about the big things, i.e. the meaning of life, the origin of life, etc. Great timeless science fiction may even go out on a dangerous limb to challenge conventional thinking. Great, timeless, classic science fiction may even have a hidden message or a veiled suggestion about a hidden message. It makes us think and that is why we love great science fiction. It may even offend some people. But that is what makes it wonderful and timeless. Cosega Search is/does all of these things.
Cosega Search asks the question, “What if?” about life and the origins of the human race. What could be more fascinating? Author Brandt Legg accomplishes all this while making the story a fun, exciting page-turner. From the first sentence to the ending there is no “down time.” The story moves along at a fast pace with no filler text and no side-ramblings. It moves straight ahead. The author introduces interesting, well developed characters and locales throughout the story. The interesting characters and background locales make it easy to visualize the story as it plays out as a movie of the mind.
Cosega Search is the kind of book you will think about long after you finish reading. You will find yourself wondering which direction the story will go in books two and three. There’s only one way to find out: Cosega Storm (Cosega Sequence book 2) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00P3CZB1I Solid 5 stars!
A fast~paced thriller which I would have wanted to finish to the very end but this is just Book One (there are three more books on the series) and a cliff~hanger yet still quite a heart~on~throat and as breath~taking as the rest of its kind, a really good thriller.
P.S. ~ I still remember the over~reaction to Dan Brown's "Da Vinci Code" book and movie and looking back I can not fathom what is the panic and terror all about. But I can now say and admit here that I was one of those taken with the tide of mass hysteria. Though I watched the movie later on and my Faith was not and has not been shaken and I even went on to read other of Dan Brown's books (as I have just read this one) without fear or trepidation. This is just fiction, something to be enjoyed as a well~written work by a Master Storyteller plus you have to admire this genre's authors' brilliant and awesome imaginations. To authors of mind~boggling thrillers such as this ~ Keep on Writing. Maybe you are here for a reason: to test and challenge the readers' Faith and get a re~action and you can not ask for more than that. But who knows?
This is a good science fiction thriller that you are quickly able to get into and enjoy. I think the author does a good job of getting you into the heads of his characters, and makes you feel as if you are right there in the middle of the scenes and action. The science / technology isn’t too over the top and you are able to get your arms around it without crying foul, and I am interested to see how the rest of the series goes with the imagination of the author.
I originally picked this up for 99 cents in the Kindle store and certainly received more than 99 cents in entertainment value. If you enjoy a modern day type of science fiction thriller, I would recommend this one.
All of this is so in the picture of how I think half the time. The Vatican and what we think they will do to certain people because of what they know. Also when you think you are safe but, look out cause you are not. But , the. Pages of someone from the past that tell you about things that could not be true but are. NO WAY; YES WAY.
It was very exciting from the beginning. The story flow was continuous and I have read it with passion, mostly because most of the story was happening around Asheville, Blue Ridge Parkway and a lot of North Carolina and Virginia of which I have great memories. I am sure I will continue with the series.
This book kept me interested from the beginning even though I calculated early on that I would not reach the end if the story with one book. It combines the search for history with a conspiracy ridden with government and Vatican intrigue, much like a Dan Brown novel. Still, in all, the book keeps you interested and involved.
Big huge secrets , that can change the world forever. Great read - plots within plots to keep the secret hidden. The Church , The Government, Power Holders that Hide or is it Help find the Rest of the Secret ?
I am always amazed at the way authors can create so many different intriguing plot lines! This book is definitely one of these. After reading Brandt Legg's bio, I understand how his life has given him a wellspring of ideas. I'm looking forward to #2!
While fast paced and a potentially good story, I found this painful to read due to the comically stereotypical characters and institutions that I suspect had the opposite effect on me than the author intended. The actions of the lead characters was presented as serious and noble but I was put off by the stupidity. Fortunately it was a short read and I got it free. I wish it was better, I generally enjoy this genre. Unfortunately, it is the first in a series and there was no ending or climax to speak of in this volume. However, I think I'll be okay skipping the rest.
We all have our reading preferences and mine are clearly thriller novels; but not just any thriller novel. I look for that rare combination of a credible yet fantastic story set in an easily recognisable framework that grabs me from the first page, anchors me to my seat for hours on end and leaves me wanting more when I reach the last few words. A chimera? Not so! Brandt Legg’s ‘Cosega Search’, the first book in his ‘Cosega Sequence’ Trilogy ticked all the boxes… and then some!
It’s a heady mix of conspiracy, deadly assassins, hidden agendas, ancient secrets and innocents caught up in the maelstrom, packaged in a fast-paced tale that will keep you reading well into the night. I started reading this yesterday afternoon and next, it was suddenly 4 am. First thing I did today was finish the novel over breakfast. That’s how addictive the story is. And the good news… there are two more books in the series which I will be reading soon. The bad news… there are only two more books in the series…
The story is immersive, the characters real and engaging, their plight one you can easily sympathise with and share. Legg puts you there with them as they run for their lives whilst endeavouring to solve the mystery their discovery presents. A superb read for lovers of outstanding thrillers. Highly recommended!
I like a good action packed mystery and Cosega Search by Brandt Legg is a great example of this type of novel. Throw in a little history, a little archeology and a dab of science fiction and you are set for a great read.
The author did an excellent job of developing a thriller that kept me glued to the pages from start to finish. Its none stop action and multiple plot twist made the book exciting to read and get into. Even with all this, the author's storytelling style made the book easy to follow and enjoy. It was a fun read.
Brandt Legg developed characters that were both believable and easy to identify with. He provided the right amount of background information to make them seem real. I found myself identifying with the hero of the story and this made the book even more fun to read. The author accomplished another goal, it has made me want to read the next installment.
Cosega Search by Brandt Legg is an excellent book and I highly recommend this book to all readers.
The premise of the story is interesting and the pace of the action is unrelenting, leaving the main characters only occasional pauses to catch a breath before imminent danger descends upon them again. Most of the time, the author allows the reader to understand how the pursuers manage to find where the protagonists have gone to ground, but not so in the final sequence at the end of the book. This instance seemed almost a little too convenient to the plot development to be plausible, but with this book ending in a cliffhanger (literally), that won't deter me from moving on to the second book in the series. In all, a most enjoyable read.
When I first started reading this book I kept thinking that it was a great story, all we need is a good author to take the idea and write a book about it. But then the story took a dive, too.
The book made no sense. It was an anti-government, anti-Catholic farce. The timing of the action was all wrong and made no sense. The antagonists didn't fit the plot. And the book doesn't quite end, it leads to book 2 in the series.
I do NOT recommend this book. And based on the content, I don't recommend further books by the author.