"What do you get if you cross Indiana Jones with Dan Brown? Answer: David Gibbins" -- the review by the 'Mirror'. Well, not quite... it does have some of the makings of Indiana Jones, but less intense. Also some of the ingredients of Dan Brown, but less suspense. I liked it a little better compar...
Är lite besviken på den här boken. Den saknade den fart och action som gjorde att jag fastnade i den första boken och som gjorde den andra relativt bra. Det blir för långa partier med fakta/information och inte så mycket spänning. I de 2 första böckerna lyckades han bättre med att väva samman inf...
The blurb on the back says "think Indiana Jones crossed with Dan Brown." I appreciate not everyone would see this as praise, and I know it is one of many "artefact-hunt" type books that have sprung up since The Da Vinci code. However, for me the difference here is the subject matter, dealing with...
I have to give Gibbins high marks for this one. It is a great treatise on war and the human condition hiding behind the mask of an adventure novel. It jumps from our main characters to Heinrich Schleimann and his digs in Troy and Mycenae, to Germany in the waning days of World War II. Gibbins tie...
The story was decent. I guess that is why I got back to these even as they frustrate me. The concepts are good, and there is even some good, like the background written as flashbacks. But the dialogue continues to turn into lectures: "Rembember when in profesor so and so's class""Oh yeah,...." f...
Quando, na altura, li a sinopse deste Ouro dos Cruzados, confesso que fiquei bastante entusiasmado com esta mistura de romanos, judaísmo, vikings, nazis e até segredos do Vaticano! Tudo apontava para uma aventura "histórica", um dos meus géneros favoritos, numa busca por um artefacto histórico d...
Title of this should be: “I have a theory about that,” said Jack.” If you’re into the sport of extreme military and general science-in-action reading, then this is for you. Don’t get me wrong, I love science and archeology, but after only 20% into the story, I was already mind-numb from all...
Why do I do it? This is my third book by David Gibbons—and I like them less and less. I keep thinking: a real archaeologist writing an adventure novel, how perfect. If I were smart enough I would BE an archaeologist. I also want to be Dirk Pitt or Kurt Austin. So what’s the problem? He’s a good w...
A harsh wind whipped across the plateau that surrounded the ravine, bringing a sharp bite of winter to those gathered for the ceremony. High above them eagles soared, flown free from the wrists of their masters, waiting for the flesh and gore that would be left for them when the ceremony was over...
Scipio and Gaius Paullus were wearing the purple-hemmed tunics they had donned for the ceremony in the temple, but had removed the laurel garlands that marked them out as viris principes, young men within their gens who were nearly of age to lead the rituals themselves. Fabius looked over the bal...
Earlier they had used the boat’s huge triangular lateen sail to make their way with the wind against the current, but with the city looming ahead Mohammed and his son had furled the sail and lowered the mast to make the boat less conspicuous and had fired up the old diesel engine again. As they c...
He could barely believe it. Hiebermeyer had led him and Rebecca straight from Dillen’s excavation to this passageway - a deep trench open to the sky - and set them to work. He had been at Troy less than three hours, and now this. He was literally reeling. The trowel slipped from his hand and hit ...