Archaeological Mystery Thriller

First they tried to kill him. Then they took his daughter . . . Anthropologist Simon Dracup knows that his only hope of finding her alive lies within the pages of his grandfather's diary, the record of a near century old expedition to Mount Ararat, legendary resting place of the great Ark of Noah. When the CIA pays him a visit Dracup learns that something was found on the Ark. Something priceless. Now its owners have taken it back, but they want revenge and Dracup is their prime target . . .

The ingenious plot of this thriller is full of twists and turns, excitement and adventure, archaeology and technology. Listeners will meet fascinating characters they'll never forget: a high-tech billionaire, a quick-witted professor, his beautiful young student, and her still-tough grandfather, a retired Marine gunny sergeant. Cornell University professor Robert Johnson and his star PhD student are hired by a billionaire entrepreneur to solve a 500-year-old archaeology mystery in northern Peru. But first, they will have to survive corporate skullduggery and drug lord thuggery.

Gus Voigt has been many things. A weapons smuggler, a barroom brawler, and the enforcer for a biker gang. After some bad choices, he finds himself hiding out in South America, scraping by as the captain of a river boat on the Amazon. There, he struggles to make ends meet while trying to take care of his wayward nephew, Jesse. Gus’ fortunes suddenly change when a mysterious Hollywood producer approaches him with a film crew and a map to Paititi, an ancient lost city of gold.

A truth long buried, a lie well told, and an old detective willing to walk toward danger. Travelling to Prague, Albert and his faithful dog have a very specific purpose in mind: Amidst the tourists and sightseers, they are on the trail of plundered Nazi gold. They know roughly where to look, but...

I've found the Fortress of Atlas, and been to the legendary Halls of Amenti. I know Atlantis was real, but the city was destroyed by a massive tidal wave. Except now I know part of the city survived. Beneath Atlantis lay the vast cavern known as Abzu, from ancient Sumerian mythology.

Long ago some of our ancestors were marked by gods. These mythological kings are found in lists all over the world. The Sumerian Kings list. The Egyptian Kings List. The Biblical Kings List.

For Johnson and his colleague, brilliant and beautiful assistant professor Abbey Summers, it becomes the adventure of a lifetime in Mongolia and The Golden Eagle, a new mystery thriller from author Bradford G. Wheler. Cyber security threats, high-tech spying, and Chinese agents mix in this ingenious and thrilling plot of full of twists and turns. Somewhere in spectacular snowcapped Altai Mountains of western Mongolia there is a mysterious object that people are willing to kill for. Listeners will meet fascinating characters they'll never forget.

Recruited by the United Nations, Alex and Sam set off on their most dangerous mission yet. Their task - find and retrieve the last remaining fossil evidence that may link humanity with mitochondrial Eve from a death-defying underground cave system in war-torn South Africa! But the fearless team soon come face to face with the perils of a nation in conflict against each other.

For millennia, stories of God’s greatest prophets have inspired Christians across the world, urging them toward the kind of faith that compelled these celebrated sages of old. But one modern madman wants that power for himself - to conquer a world he views as filled with unrepentant sinners as he ushers in a new age of religious rule.

When an ancient papyrus linked to the lost city of Atlantis is stolen, Adrian West and Nick Harper are summoned to Athens to assist in the investigation, but they soon find themselves in a lethal game of cat and mouse with members of a shadowy yet powerful organization intent on finding the ruins of Atlantis for their own deadly ends.

Million-copy bestselling author Kate Ellis returns with the brand new mystery in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series. When a body is discovered in a picturesque South Devon village, DI Wesley Peterson is called in to investigate. The victim, Barry Brown, is a celebrity ghostwriter and the theft...

Million-copy bestselling author Kate Ellis returns with the brand new mystery in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series. South Devon is returning to its usual calm after the summer tourist season when DI Wesley Peterson and his team receive a disturbing call. A mummified body has been discovered...

Get ready for an action-packed archaeological thriller series from Lex Faulkner. If you like Luke Richardson and Ernest Dempsey you will LOVE this! 💥📚 A mysterious ancient relic. A forgotten civilization. A truth that could change the world forever. In 1906, an Egyptologist uncovered a map...

You can hide Manuscripts for centuries but not forever. Someone got murdered and someone has stolen the newly discovered lost manuscripts from Leonardo da Vinci. Arcadia found them back, only to lose them again through betrayal of a man she once loved. Murder happens again before she recovers the books and takes the first flight out which is to Australia and then to Spain where she is chased first by killers and then by the police who is accusing her having shot a police man.

An ancient secret. A missing plague. A billionaire's twisted vision for a new Eden. When a terrified informant is gunned down in front of HARPA Director Jim Gates, he leaves behind a terrifying revelation: a missing, original chapter from the Book of Exodus has been discovered. This ancient...

In Israel, famed archaeologist Christopher Jordan and ancient manuscript expert Kathryn Ferguson team up again to save two recently discovered jars and the early Christian documents they are believed to contain. Complicating their effort are an American fundamentalist student who discovered the jars and fanatically believes they should be in Christian hands, and a Hezbollah kidnapping attempt of Chris and Kate in reprisal for their earlier heisting of Mark's original gospel from Syria. Israeli and Palestinian antiquity authorities are also in the mix for claiming ownership of the jars.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Kingdom by Clive Cussler and Grant Blackwood, read by Scott Brick. Whether it's lost treasure or missing persons, the Fargos find themselves in a heap of trouble every time . . . When Texas oil baron Charlie King contacts...

This assiduously researched, fast-paced novel brings archaeology, bioengineering, and cyber espionage to life against an international backdrop of five continents. Listeners will meet a fascinating cast of characters on the trail of the elusive international criminal killers. Mixing the action of David Baldacci’s The Hit, the tech thrills of Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, and the dialogue of Robert B. Parker’s Spenser novels, The Zulu Curse is a true pleasure to listen to.

Pick up the next page-turning instalment of the adrenaline-fuelled adventure series from bestselling author Rob Jones. An epic rollecoaster of a thriller for fans of Scott Mariani and Clive Cussler! 💥 A mission like no other, will test the team to the limit ⚠️ Dr Max Hunter, Special Agent...

Get ready for the next thrilling adventure in Rob Jones' high-octane conspiracy series! A must read for fans of Scott Mariani and Dan Jones! 💥 It’s time to crack the Excalibur Code… 🗡️ When ex-army officer and UNESCO archaeologist Max Hunter is sent to Normandy on the trail of...