I actually read the first book of the series years ago but only got the time to continue the series just now. As usual I am fascinated by how I could picture the whole action in my head. Although I still like the first one better but I can't help to be awed by how awkward you would be in between ...
I really liked this novel. It's full of adventure and good times. The happenings that go on during it are all something from the movies but what do you expect? the author was a former movie critic. If you don't like action novels that come close to how a movie script would play out then i wouldn'...
Largely a story of two very different halves....the second half far less enjoyable and became a bit of a struggle to finish in the endIm a big fan of Clive Cussler and James Rollins and tried this one as McDermott is regularly mentioned in the same breath as several of the adventure titans, howev...
I picked this one up wondering what new earthshaking ‘secret’ would Mr. Mc Dermott reveal about a religion and a culture that I have grown up with. The genre of historical fiction has never ceased to excite me since I read The Da Vinci Code. Delving into the past, unearthing artefacts and relics ...
Very enjoyable read, not his best, but I had so much fun reading this book. Nina and Eddie are becoming my favorite characters and I just wish they could meet up with Lara and Nathan Drake. How awesome would that be? But seriously this book was a lot of fun and the action was just pure craziness...
This was one of the better ones of the series. I enjoyed the differing events in this book and the tensions that will be explored in the next book. I especially enjoyed the last parts of the book and the convergence from the usual formula of the previous novels; actual twists - nice touch. I'm st...
Technically I read the American paperback version called, "The Pyramid of Doom", but lets assume the content is the same.This book was exactly what you'd expect it to be: a not-particularly deep, entertaining read. The tone is what really gives this book legs, in my opinion, in that it never take...
As much as I liked the first book in this series (The hunt for Atlantis), this book was just not what I expected. I liked the combination archaeology / adventure. And in this book was nearly nothing about that combination - only adventure - and there are really better adventure writers than Mr. M...
Rating 3.5.A good action packed movie, oops its novel not movie. It was my first McDermott novel and I enjoyed reading it. Though, the sword was found midway through the novel and after that it is about recovering it which may be a downside but its a action thriller not historical mythology. Too ...
Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase are back - and their adventures are more dangerous than ever!Beneath the Great Sphinx of Egypt lies the Hall of Records, a repository of ancient knowledge long thought to be legend. But on the eve of its opening, archaeology student Macy Sharif discovers a religious cul...
Good continuation book for a decent mystery-adventure series. While not on par with Cussler or James Patterson, McDermott is an enjoyable author to read. The characters are while defined and developed if a bit over the top, but isn't everybody's adventure characters now a days. I have read the en...
Talk about cliff hangers!!!! This book is practically non-stop cliff hangers where Nina and Eddie Chase manage to escape from one impossible situation to another. Somewhere in the book one of the characters describes their story as "a combination of Indiana Jones and James Bond." I can't think m...
Andy McDermott is definitely an excellent writer and this is another exciting book in the series. The only thing I didn't like is how every single place the main characters travel to, they encounter people trying to kill them, yet its always a surprise to them. You'd think after the millionth t...
"The Shadow Protocol" met my expectations as a fun, fast-paced read, and an exciting narrative within the thriller genre. I enjoyed McDermott's creativity with a theoretical--and perhaps someday, real--technology as a weapon in the ongoing fight with terrorism and state enemies. The premise is gr...
Eddie lifted one of the trio from the protective foam bed, dancing it between its companions as if playing with a toy soldier. “Hard to believe these crappy little things caused so much trouble.” “And cost so many lives,” said Nina morosely. After Glas had returned them to the survey ship—its cre...
“It—it might not be them,” she said, with very little conviction. “No, it’s got to be,” Eddie growled. He counted seven vehicles: two snowmobiles in the lead, followed by a trio of large four-by-fours, and another pair that took him a moment to identify as icerunners—two-seaters resembling steroi...
He struggled to breathe, the sudden cold squeezing his chest tight – then realised he couldn’t move. His arms were pinned painfully behind his back. Still straining to draw in air, he shook and writhed, trying to get loose. No joy. Something was biting into his wrists. Handcuffs. No way to break ...
It had been many years since he had flown in actual combat, attacking rebels in the Second Chechen War, but he had not forgotten how to fight. “Come right three degrees,” he told the pilot in the seat behind him. Unlike earlier models of the Mi-24, which had a rotating turret, the 30mm autocannon...
Whomever the other man was, he was serious about wanting Kari dead. And from what she had already seen of Hajjar, his greed would soon force him to cave in and accept the blood money. And there was nothing she could do to stop it. Unless … “Two guards at the lower gate,” said Castille as he and C...
The region had been marshland not long ago, but war had changed that. Not directly; the islands spattering the expanse between the great rivers of the Tigris and the Euphrates had not been destroyed by shells and explosives. Instead spite had drained it, the dictator Saddam Hussein taking his rev...
Nina was not admiring the view, however, instead reading a digest of a scientific paper about nuclear transmutation on an iPad. Eddie was not looking through the window either, but nor was he engrossed by a screen. He was watching his wife with a pensive expression that be...