Ernest Dempsey

Not worth your reading time, at least it wasn't worth mine. At least it was short. A thriller in the DaVinci Code/Indiana Jones genre: an academic (or in this case several academics) in pursuit of a mystical artifact, pursued by religious cultists and sinister foreigners. Path strewn with corpses; riddles solved too easily by two separate teams of seekers; stray people joining the chase for no apparent reason. Writing adequate but filled with word selections not quite right, scattered with emotional reactions inappropriate to the circumstances, implausible scientific details, and odd character motivations. And to top it off, ends with hanging threads presumably to entice you into reading a subsequent book. No thanks.… (plus d'informations)

A fast paced Dan Brown-styled thriller set in the Cherokee tribal lands of North Georgia. When a local archaeologist uncovers a mysterious relic, international mercenaries are soon after it and anyone who can decipher its secret. This skillfully blends the factual – the forced removal of the Cherokee people, the legend of a cave of gold – into a high stakes race to find the fabled treasure the Cherokee had to leave behind. I especially enjoyed the regional history about the archaeological sites that was scattered throughout this very suspenseful mystery.… (plus d'informations)