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 more of an apt description of the story. Bad guys become good guys, some good guys become bad guys, the twist and turns are a constant. I liked the book because the reader gets involved with the characters, there is a plot and a lot of action. Eddie Chase also hooks some funny one liners.This is the first book I listened to of the series so there is some past history that I don't know about. And thankfully the author doesn't go into much detail about that other to support the story at hand. Apparently, Nina is a beautiful (of course) brainy, gutsy Archaeologist in charge of the IHA. Eddie is a bad-ass former British SAS agent who is Nina's husband. Nina has discovered Atlantis whose people discovered the beginning time source of life on the planet which was delivered by a meteorite. Three statues were made of this stone by the Atlantians to find the original meteorite is hidden which holds the building blocks of life itself and other special powers. These powers is what destroyed Atlantis and powers that no mere mortal should mess with. Nina so happens to be current-day descendant of the people of Atlantis and is the only one to able to make the stones statues do their thing. Powerful people want that "earth-source" power to control the world. The struggle to "do the right thing" ensues in retrieving the statues and finding the meteorite. A fun roller coaster ride. My only complaint is they get into (and out) of so many predicaments the story becomes predicable in that aspect. I won this book and enjoyed it, but it was more of an Indiana Jones type story, and I am generally more into classic scifi with hardcore science. The story plot and quick moving nature of the writing made it exciting and those readers who like adventure novels will like this. The science is fanciful, but if you can 'suspend disbelief' and just go along for the ride, it's a roller-coaster of excitement. If not, then it will not likely be an enjoyable read.
What do You think about Return To Atlantis (2012)?
Lots of action but a bit contrived... still had fun with it though
—daisy
Another action packed thrill ride from Mcdermott.
—goh
About 50 pages too long.
—krishnakumargopalakrishnan
