Book #37: The Lost Throne
Back Cover:
Carved into the towering cliffs of central Greece, the Monastery of the Holy Trinity is all but inaccessible. Its sacred brotherhood has protected its secret for centuries.
In the dead of night, the monastery's sanctity is shattered by an elite group of warriors carrying ancient weapons. One by one, they behead the monks and hurl the bodies from the cliff top to the rocks below. The holy men take their secrets to their graves.
Halfway across Europe, Richard Byrd has uncovered the location of the magnificent treasure, but there are those who will stop at nothing to prevent its discovery.
Hoping to save himself, Byrd contacts Jonathan Payne and David Jones and begs for their help. The duo rush to Saint Petersburg, Russia, and quickly find themselves caught up in an adventure that will change their lives forever.
My Review:
I'm not sure what it is about books like this, but I really enjoy reading them. I like to call them "historical mysteries" that run along the same lines as Dan Brown' Angels and Demons The DaVinci Code, an The Lost Symbol. Chris Kuzneski is a very good writer, but he doesn't seem to hold up as much as Dan Brown. Brown usually has more history in his books, whereas Kuzneski uses history to spark a chase filled with violence and little clue-solving. Don't take that sentence the wrong way, though. I thoroughly enjoye The Lost Throne. I did not enjoy it as much as the first Kuzneski work I read (The Prophecy), but that could be because I was more interested in the "End Times" than I was this "lost throne," otherwise known as the Throne of Zeus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
Rating 3.5 out of 5 stars
Kelly <3