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An ancient organization more powerful than the federal government has targeted the USA. They'll stop at nothing to destroy the republic and raise an empire. The adventure begins with a mysterious military burial - and a shocking legacy that has explosive implications for America's future. Archaeologist Conrad Yeats discovers in his father's tombstone the key to a centuries-old warning built into the very design of Washington DC. Major monuments along the National Mall are astronomically aligned and are about to 'lock' with the stars at a date foreseen by the Founding Fathers. Along with Serena Serghetti, a beautiful Vatican linguist with secrets of her own, Yeats explores the hidden world beneath America's capital city in a deadly race to save it. For America has a date with destiny - and the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
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A former journalist, media executive and screenwriter, Thomas Greanias is the founder and CEO of Atlantis Interactive Inc, a Beverly Hills-based entertainment company that has created some of the Web's most groundbreaking entertainment. Visit www.raisingatlantis.com
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a stereotypical thriller/religious worldly conspiracy that feels 'written in a hurry'. How many books can you squeeze out of the word Atlantis? - this author is doing a third one as I understand it. A lot of it is very tiresome -- The USA founding fathers - Buried globes - A new world order - when the stars align - bad guy releasing a virus - blah blah. The good guy (Conrad Yeats) is totally unbelievable - he just happens to have an answer to every scenario the whole world of bad guys can throw at him. Some of the coincidences are laughable. At one unexpected moment he decides to spend the night in a cave so the bad guys cannot find him (of course this was a secret cave his father showed him when he was young which just happens to be a back door into some Govt building or tunnels or other) and the nun who is with him just happens to have a change of clothes for him in her bag - hey presto - including his choice of boxers!!. What? I mean it's just ridiculous. There's more. There is also an overwhelming feeling that whatever research the author did, that he had to find a way of dumping it in the book, whether relevant or not. I could go on. Tiresome. Sorry.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Don't buy it for a second!
3 Aug 2008
Format:Mass Market Paperback
When you read the review above and on the first few pages of the book itself - how could any thriller reader not want to read it?
"A thrill ride from start to finish."
-- Clive Cussler
"...one of those books you end up staying up way too late reading."
-- Sandra Hughes, CBS News
Turns out those blurbs refer to his first book - Raising Atlantis. Too bad I didn't realize that when I was in the store. But judging from the reviews on that one - these lines were over-hype even then.
CONCEPT SUMMARY: Conspiracy begun many years ago when the Free Masons were fighting for the survival of the country blossoms in DC for an clue-breaking astrologer and a crypotographer-nun from the vatican. They try to solve the clues to conspiracy before it's too late - while fighting an evil secret group.
Here's what I didn't like this book:
1. ALL TO FAMILIAR PREMISE AND EXECUTION: Look to the back of the book and you'll find a nice little map of Washington, D.C. - that looks VERY FAMILIAR. Read the equally horrible The Book of Fate or seen the better excuted National Treasure (Widescreen Edition) - than you know this tale. Yes, I knew the premise was familiar. But, I did hope for a fast-paced, original execution with charachters I'd enjoy.
2.LOOKING FOR ANOTHER ENGROSSING PAGE-TURNING THINKING PERSON'S THRILLER - LIKE The Da Vinci Code? YOU WON'T FIND IT HERE. If you're going to step up and copy the Da Vinci Codes pattern - you'd best do it well. Here we have "clue-breaking" experts led on a trail of discovery, ties to the vatican, ties to the free masons... and after the first scene - which also gets expectations high - it's just boring. Despite all the great blurbs - in this one I didn't care enough to even want to think of where the clues might lead.
BOTTOM LINE: Nothing original enough or interesting enough in this book to make it worth the time.
"A thrill ride from start to finish."
-- Clive Cussler
"...one of those books you end up staying up way too late reading."
-- Sandra Hughes, CBS News
Turns out those blurbs refer to his first book - Raising Atlantis. Too bad I didn't realize that when I was in the store. But judging from the reviews on that one - these lines were over-hype even then.
CONCEPT SUMMARY: Conspiracy begun many years ago when the Free Masons were fighting for the survival of the country blossoms in DC for an clue-breaking astrologer and a crypotographer-nun from the vatican. They try to solve the clues to conspiracy before it's too late - while fighting an evil secret group.
Here's what I didn't like this book:
1. ALL TO FAMILIAR PREMISE AND EXECUTION: Look to the back of the book and you'll find a nice little map of Washington, D.C. - that looks VERY FAMILIAR. Read the equally horrible The Book of Fate or seen the better excuted National Treasure (Widescreen Edition) - than you know this tale. Yes, I knew the premise was familiar. But, I did hope for a fast-paced, original execution with charachters I'd enjoy.
2.LOOKING FOR ANOTHER ENGROSSING PAGE-TURNING THINKING PERSON'S THRILLER - LIKE The Da Vinci Code? YOU WON'T FIND IT HERE. If you're going to step up and copy the Da Vinci Codes pattern - you'd best do it well. Here we have "clue-breaking" experts led on a trail of discovery, ties to the vatican, ties to the free masons... and after the first scene - which also gets expectations high - it's just boring. Despite all the great blurbs - in this one I didn't care enough to even want to think of where the clues might lead.
BOTTOM LINE: Nothing original enough or interesting enough in this book to make it worth the time.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Much to improve upon...
21 July 2008
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Although there are several good thematic points made throughout this story, the character development is poor. Plot development is frenetic and incomplete. Sometimes incompleteness is a technique for driving the story, but not so here....too many loose ends and inconsistencies. The author's vanity plays out on the canvas of this "less-than-beach-trash"-quality story and it is found wanting.
That being said, Mr. Greaniasi is imaginative, but needs much more experience in cultivating the writer's art.
That being said, Mr. Greaniasi is imaginative, but needs much more experience in cultivating the writer's art.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Better Than The First One
8 July 2008
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This book was such a pleasure to read after slogging through The Ruins, I'm almost biased a little toward a better review than if I'd read this one after a different book. Still, it had me glued to my chair.
In the first one, I liked his Antarctica story and though the hero, Yates, was a little whiny, it wasn't enough to sway me from reading this sequel.
Though there are a few plot holes and some gaps in logic and sequence, I don't care. I had such fun reading it that that stuff didn't matter. Besides, it is well written, follows the current rules of writing, and the editing is almost top notch (found at least one typo but can't remember where).
Some are complaining because it's a mix of DaVinci Code and National Treasure. So what? Is it any different from all the murder mysteries out there? Geez! How many ways can you kill someone? It's the story itself and the characters that make or break it.
Is this book realistic? Heck no! Could it happen? Doubt it. Does it matter to me? No. It was a fun ride and left me wanting more.
Just one note. I'll be pissed if he doesn't finally get the girl in the third book!
If you want a good fast paced read, I highly recommend this one.
In the first one, I liked his Antarctica story and though the hero, Yates, was a little whiny, it wasn't enough to sway me from reading this sequel.
Though there are a few plot holes and some gaps in logic and sequence, I don't care. I had such fun reading it that that stuff didn't matter. Besides, it is well written, follows the current rules of writing, and the editing is almost top notch (found at least one typo but can't remember where).
Some are complaining because it's a mix of DaVinci Code and National Treasure. So what? Is it any different from all the murder mysteries out there? Geez! How many ways can you kill someone? It's the story itself and the characters that make or break it.
Is this book realistic? Heck no! Could it happen? Doubt it. Does it matter to me? No. It was a fun ride and left me wanting more.
Just one note. I'll be pissed if he doesn't finally get the girl in the third book!
If you want a good fast paced read, I highly recommend this one.
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