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When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory, a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. To verify the authenticity of the find, the White House calls upon the skills of intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic scholar Michael Tolland, Rachel travels to the Arctic and uncovers the unthinkable.
When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage, not by guns or bombs, but by a code so complex that if released it would cripple U.S. intelligence.
As the burning city of Acre falls from the hands of the West in 1291, a young Templar knight, his mentor, and a handful of others escape to the sea carrying a mysterious chest. In present day Manhattan, four masked horsemen dressed as Templar Knights steal a strange device. In the aftermath, an FBI investigation is led by anti-terrorist specialist Sean Reilly. Soon, he and archaeologist Tess Chaykin are drawn into the dark, hidden history of the crusading knights.
When brilliant archaeologist Dilara Kenner is contacted by Sam Watson, an old family friend who says that he has crucial information about her missing father, Dilara abandons her Peruvian dig and rushes to Los Angeles to meet him. But at the airport, Sam speaks instead of Noah’s Ark—the artifact her father had long been searching for—and the possible death of billions. Before Sam can explain, he collapses. With his dying breath, he urges Dilara to find Tyler Locke—a man she’s never heard of.
In the summer of 1601, Galileo Galilei made a startling discovery in the mountains of Eastern Italy that, if made public, could shatter faith in religion, bring down governments, and lead to worldwide turmoil. For more than 400 years, the secret has been guarded by a small group of incredibly powerful people, willing to do everything in their power to keep these discoveries from being made.
In the powerful new thriller from the author of the international bestseller The Last Templar, a geneticist and a CIA agent on a deadly quest to find the most dangerous book in the world discover a secret that has destroyed everyone in its path for centuries.
When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory, a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. To verify the authenticity of the find, the White House calls upon the skills of intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic scholar Michael Tolland, Rachel travels to the Arctic and uncovers the unthinkable.
When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage, not by guns or bombs, but by a code so complex that if released it would cripple U.S. intelligence.
As the burning city of Acre falls from the hands of the West in 1291, a young Templar knight, his mentor, and a handful of others escape to the sea carrying a mysterious chest. In present day Manhattan, four masked horsemen dressed as Templar Knights steal a strange device. In the aftermath, an FBI investigation is led by anti-terrorist specialist Sean Reilly. Soon, he and archaeologist Tess Chaykin are drawn into the dark, hidden history of the crusading knights.
When brilliant archaeologist Dilara Kenner is contacted by Sam Watson, an old family friend who says that he has crucial information about her missing father, Dilara abandons her Peruvian dig and rushes to Los Angeles to meet him. But at the airport, Sam speaks instead of Noah’s Ark—the artifact her father had long been searching for—and the possible death of billions. Before Sam can explain, he collapses. With his dying breath, he urges Dilara to find Tyler Locke—a man she’s never heard of.
In the summer of 1601, Galileo Galilei made a startling discovery in the mountains of Eastern Italy that, if made public, could shatter faith in religion, bring down governments, and lead to worldwide turmoil. For more than 400 years, the secret has been guarded by a small group of incredibly powerful people, willing to do everything in their power to keep these discoveries from being made.
In the powerful new thriller from the author of the international bestseller The Last Templar, a geneticist and a CIA agent on a deadly quest to find the most dangerous book in the world discover a secret that has destroyed everyone in its path for centuries.
World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization, the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra.
In Antarctica, a scientific expedition drops anchor for a live news feed. As the CNN journalist begins her report, a massive, shimmering sphere of light suddenly appears in the sky, enveloping the ship in luminous white light before disappearing as mysteriously as it arrived - the entire event witnessed by an incredulous world audience.
Geophysicist Jack Greer believes he may finally have found the resting place of the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs sixty-five million years ago. A few miles off the Yucatán coast, Jack and a team of scientists tow an aging drilling platform over the impact crater with the aim of securing a sample. But buried deep beneath the earth lies a shocking discovery that threatens to shatter everything we think we know about the origins of our species.
In 1829, the Portuguese brig Dourado sank off the coast of Indonesia, losing its cargo of priceless treasures from the Holy Land. One of these lost relics holds the key to an ancient mystery. But someone does not want this treasure to come to light. When her father is murdered while searching for the Dourado, Kaylin Maxwell hires treasure hunter and former Navy Seal Dane Maddock and his partner Uriah "Bones" Bonebrake, to locate the wreckage and recover a lost Biblical artifact.
The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces vying for the treasure have learned that it is not at all what they thought it was, and its true nature could change the modern world.
An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum and the race begins to determine how it happened, why it happened, and what it means. Lady Kara Kensington's family paid a high price in money and blood to found the gallery that now lies in ruins. Her search for answers leads Kara and her friend Safia al-Maaz, the gallery's curator, into a world they never dreamed existed.
In Atlanta, Dr. Peyton Shaw is awakened by the phone call she has dreaded for years. As the CDC's leading epidemiologist, she's among the first responders to outbreaks around the world. It's a lonely and dangerous job, but it's her life - and she's good at it. This time she may have met her match. In Kenya, an Ebola-like pathogen has infected two Americans. One lies at death's door. With the clock ticking, Peyton assembles her team and joins personnel from the Kenyan Ministry of Health and the WHO.
Seventy thousand years ago, the human race almost went extinct. We survived, but no one knows how.
Until now. The countdown to the next stage of human evolution is about to begin, and humanity might not survive this time. The Immari are good at keeping secrets. For 2,000 years, they've hidden the truth about human evolution. They've also searched for an ancient enemy - a threat that could wipe out the human race. Now the search is over.
Fatima, Portugal, 1917: The Virgin Mary appears to three peasant children, sharing with them three secrets, two of which are soon revealed to the world. The third secret is sealed away in the Vatican, read only by popes, and not disclosed until the year 2000. When revealed, its quizzical tone and anticlimactic nature leave many faithful wondering if the Church has truly unveiled all of the Virgin Mary's words, or if a message far more important has been left in the shadows.
In 1906, a groundbreaking Rolls-Royce prototype known as the Gray Ghost vanishes from the streets of Manchester, England, and it is only the lucky intervention of an American detective named Isaac Bell that prevents it from being lost forever. Not even he can save the good name of Marcus Peyton, however, the man wrongly blamed for the theft, and more than 100 years later, it is his grandson who turns to Sam and Remi Fargo to help prove his grandfather's innocence. But there is even more at stake than any of them know.
During a trek to Loch Ness, Scotland, a young Charles Darwin encounters a mysterious and terrifying creature that provides a spark for his evolutionary theory. Almost 200 years later and across the Channel in Paris, the Eiffel Tower is under attack. Only through detective work, intuition, and a judicious application of high-tech weaponry does former Army combat engineer Tyler Locke prevent a massacre.
Gideon Crew - brilliant scientist, master thief, intrepid adventurer - is shocked when his former employer, Eli Glinn, vanishes without a trace, and Glinn's high-tech lab Effective Engineering Solutions shuts down seemingly overnight. Fresh off a diagnosis that gives him only months to live, Crew is contacted by one of his former coworkers at EES, Manuel Garza, who has a bead on one final treasure hinted at in EES's final case, the long-awaited translation of a centuries-old stone tablet of a previously undiscovered civilization: The Phaistos Disc.
While world-famous linguist and archaeologist, Thomas Lourds, is shooting a film that dramatizes his flamboyant life and scientific achievements, satellites spot impossibly ancient ruins along the Spanish coast. Lourds knows exactly what it means: the Lost Continent of Atlantis has been found. The race is on, and Lourds' challengers will do anything to get there first.
Whoever controls the Lost Continent will control the world.
Any additional comments?
This was an excellent, well-developed storyline. However, having made the mistake of listening to The Temple Mount Code out of sequence, I was more than a little disappointed in Erik Davies' performance. While he did a good job of diferentiating the characters, Jonathan Davis has Thomas Lourds down pat. Highly recommend this book.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful
Taken from the Preston/Child/Berry school of thriller, this has lots of action, a twisting plot and outstanding narration. Listeners who appreciate this school of action thriller will not be dissappointed.
11 of 12 people found this review helpful
Well, the story was predictable, but would have been enjoyable if not for the awful narration. I concur with other reviewers the accents are terrible, and the narrator has a flat delivery. What a shame.
10 of 11 people found this review helpful
There is nothing I enjoy better than a book that is based in enough reality as to be plausible, and yet incorporate such creativity and imagination as to completely suspend one's belief. I loved it.
10 of 11 people found this review helpful
The publisher’s summary seems to promise an exciting adventure. The plot line, as described, could be engaging. However, the characters are hollow, the chase is contrived, and the book is way too long.
Thomas Lourdes seems spineless. He is an expert on ancient languages. He is asked to translate a previously unknown language. He falls into a mystery. He falls into a race to solve it. He falls into bed with each of the female characters without really pursuing them. He seems more like a bystander than the take-charge adventurer that I expected.
The female characters are trite and insufferable. One is an arrogant, conniving, blond, British media host. The other is a brusk, Russian policewoman intent on revenging the death of her sister. Needless to say they don’t get along with each other and their attempts to move the investigation along are often at cross purposes.
Lastly, there is a cameraman running along with the searchers. After one media representative is tortured and killed, the group is being chased and shot at, and it is urgent to get to Atlantis quickly, why is a cameraman necessary?
Unlocking the clues seems to come easy in spite of all of the factions trying to stop Lourdes. Why would people that had been guarding secrets for generations just give them up?
Finally, it was a real challenge to finish the book. I usually pay pretty close attention and even replay portions when I think I have missed something. This was so slow and so long that I paid bills, answered the phone, took short power naps, and didn’t seem to miss anything. I found myself hoping that the wrath of God would put an end to it. (One very possible ending for the story.)
The narration is adequate. There are so many different nationalities and accents that I am sure that this reading was a challenge.
9 of 10 people found this review helpful
Would you consider the audio edition of The Atlantis Code to be better than the print version?
I did not read the printed version
Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
Yes, the plot keep me on the edge of my seat. You never knew who was going to be on the good side or bad side of the church.
Which character – as performed by Erik Davies – was your favorite?
Lesslie
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
When the C. Church got involved. It not to far off the history of the church if you really think about it. I could see the church doing this.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
I drive two hours a day and I get books to listen to while on the way to/from work. This one had me yelling at it almost from page 1. The narration has half the characters sounding like cartoon mobsters and the other half sounding like Count Dracula meets Natasha from Bullwinkle. I kept hoping one would say "moose and squirrel", which would at least have given me a laugh. Also, the characters are supposedly halfway intelligent and resourceful, but they prove, over and over and over again, that they are not. And, granted the book is male adventure fantasy, but do the women have to be so irrational for an idiot man who may or may not be good looking depending on if you like David Beckham? Clumsy storytelling and an unbelievable plot further aided by clumsy narration. Avoid. It's not a good thing when you are only listening in hopes that all of the main characters are killed.
10 of 14 people found this review helpful
The central character in this book is a linguist, but the narration is full of mispronunciations and cartoon russian and italian accents.
An obscure but central culture in the book , Yoruba, has not been researched for pronouncing names or places-Oludumare(O-LU'-DU-MA'-RAY), Obatala(O-BA'-TA-LA), Ile Ifa(EE'-LAY EE'-FA)
also Trastevere(TRAS-TE'- VER- EE)a section of Rome.
In the Russians' accents I am reminded of Bullwinkle-Boris and Natasha.
And do educated english speaking Italians really add an 'a' after every syllable?
8 of 13 people found this review helpful
He did a fantatic job on male voices. Women's were a bit scary. Also, its a bit of a stretch to learn God provided a bound book at the Gsrden of Eden, but Moses got stone tablets.
Would you try another book from Charles Brokaw and/or Erik Davies?
I think that Erik Davies did a fairly good job pulling off the different voices for the Characters.
Has The Atlantis Code turned you off from other books in this genre?
No
Any additional comments?
This book is very similar in story line to Dan Browns book's but was not done well. It's a good read if you are not comparing the too or just want something about Atlantis. The female characters really got on my nerves. It seamed the only thing the write thought the women good for was a good roll in the sack as both women had to sleep with the Thomas.