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Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Sean Reilly and archaeologist Tess Chaykin investigate the reappearance of a drug that has been lost since the 1700s and induces experiences that can ruin Western civilization and race against time to find it and stop powerful forces from using it.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Archaeologist Ruth Galloway, expecting a baby, is called to investigate when construction workers find the bones of a child, missing its skill, beneath the doorway of an old house being demolished in Norwich, and although the house was once a children's home, it is discovered that the bones date to a time when the residence was privately owned, and that someone does not want the truth to be known.
3) Shadow zone
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Submersible designer Hannah Bryson makes a shocking discovery while mapping the ancient underwater city of Marinth that could have devastating consequences for the modern-day world, and when her key artifact is stolen on the way to the research laboratory, she is thrust into a life-threatening battle of wits against a terrifying enemy.
4) Thunderhead
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist Nora Kelly discovers unbelievable riches and inescapable death when she comes into possession of a mysterious letter written by her father, who vanished sixteen years earlier, in which he divulges the location of the legendary Quivira, the Anasazi Indians' lost city of gold.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1922 Egyptologists Radcliffe Emerson and his wife Amelia try unsuccessfully to persuade Howard Carter to give them the digging rights in the Valley of the Kings, so they head for Luxor to search for the tomb of King Tut, only to become involved in a dangerous plot that includes kidnapping, betrayal, and intrigue.
6) Deadlock
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mercenary John Garrett is on a mission to rescue artifact experts Emily Hudson and Joel Levy after they were abducted by a ruthless thief intent on finding the missing link to their treasure.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Language
English
Description
Detective Wesley Peterson's first day on the job is far from calm when a jogger discovers the body of a young woman, and as Wesley becomes more involved in the case he finds a strange connection between the murdered woman, a missing child, and a four-hundred-year-old mystery.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Twenty-three-year-old photojournalist Molly Drake arrives in Cambodia to cover the U.S. military search for the remains of an American pilot shot down during the Vietnam War, but the search is soon forgotten in the face of a deadly typhoon and the discovery of an ancient city where more than thirty GIs disappeared during the war.
10) The blood Gospel
Author
Series
Order of the Sanguines volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an earthquake in Israel reveals a subterranean temple that contains the crucified and mummified body of a girl, archaeologist Erin Granger, a military forensic expert, and a Vatican priest are sent to investigate.
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