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If you enjoyed The Da Vinci Code, The Atlantis Code will take you to a new level of mystery, wonder, adventure and excitement. This book will enthrall you and at the same time connect you in a very intimate way with the mystery of your sacred existence. (Deepak Chopra )
Short, gripping chapters move the action from Egypt to Russia to Africa to London. Indiana Jones meets The Da Vinci Code. Look out, Dan Brown, Brokaw can play this game a lot better than most of your imitators. (Booklist Review )
In the 19th century, the equivalent of a blockbuster movie was a tense, thrilling novel, often told in serial form. We tend to forget that the modern novel need not be anything more significant than excellent entertainment, which is the perfect description of Charles Brokaw's The Atlantis Code. ...A rollicking adventure, with nonstop action and suspense. Readers can only hope that Brokaw is prepared to send Professor Lourds on further quests. (Publishers Weekly )
A winning combination of all the ingredients an adventure addict could want: great action, intrepid archeologists, dark conspiracies, cliffhangers, and a real sense of wonder. (Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times Bestselling Co-Author Of Paul Of Dune And Author Of The Edge Of The World )
Brokaw's hero is Indiana Jones without the whip. Who knew archeology could be so exciting? Wonderful entertainment. (Stephen Coonts, New York Times Bestselling Author Of The Traitor )
Storytelling doesn't get much better than this. I've set this one aside to read again! (David Hagberg, New York Times Bestselling Author Of The Expediter )
Short, gripping chapters move the action from Egypt to Russia to Africa to London. Indiana Jones meets The Da Vinci Code. Look out, Dan Brown, Brokaw can play this game a lot better than most of your imitators. (Booklist Review )
In the 19th century, the equivalent of a blockbuster movie was a tense, thrilling novel, often told in serial form. We tend to forget that the modern novel need not be anything more significant than excellent entertainment, which is the perfect description of Charles Brokaw's The Atlantis Code. ...A rollicking adventure, with nonstop action and suspense. Readers can only hope that Brokaw is prepared to send Professor Lourds on further quests. (Publishers Weekly )
A winning combination of all the ingredients an adventure addict could want: great action, intrepid archeologists, dark conspiracies, cliffhangers, and a real sense of wonder. (Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times Bestselling Co-Author Of Paul Of Dune And Author Of The Edge Of The World )
Brokaw's hero is Indiana Jones without the whip. Who knew archeology could be so exciting? Wonderful entertainment. (Stephen Coonts, New York Times Bestselling Author Of The Traitor )
Storytelling doesn't get much better than this. I've set this one aside to read again! (David Hagberg, New York Times Bestselling Author Of The Expediter )
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From the bestselling author of The Atlantis Code
A secret scroll remains hidden deep in an ancient sanctuary. It is guarded by a sacred order who await to unleash its true powers and bring doomsday upon mankind.
Only one man - Dr. Thomas Lourds, the world's foremost scholar of ancient languages, who we first met in the bestselling novel The Atlantis Code - can safely bring this secret scroll to its rightful place in history.
Lourds soon becomes the focus of a deadly manhunt, taking him from Istanbul through Eastern Europe, right to the heart of the Vatican, where the forces of good and evil will collide...
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have to agree with others who rate this badly. Steve W summs it up well.
What he doesn't emphasise is that the ending involves some supernatural magic. Not only a cop-out but a real let down for those of us who eschew all the fantasy books that fill booksellers.
I want my thrillers to be based on the real world, at least enough that I can suspend reality. Magic and the like have no place in it.
And as others have said, it allows the author to be utterly lazy and just come up with any old ending.
Don't buy this book, it's garbage.
What he doesn't emphasise is that the ending involves some supernatural magic. Not only a cop-out but a real let down for those of us who eschew all the fantasy books that fill booksellers.
I want my thrillers to be based on the real world, at least enough that I can suspend reality. Magic and the like have no place in it.
And as others have said, it allows the author to be utterly lazy and just come up with any old ending.
Don't buy this book, it's garbage.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
So I've read enough of these books to know the formula - strange new archaelogical find with implications for the whole world, mysterious forces chasing the lead protagonist, various femmes (fatale and otherwise), all building to an earth-shattering climax where the Truth is revealed. etc.
This book ticks all the boxes but in such a perfunctory manner that you'll be left feeling sorely disappointed. Unlike Dan Brown, the puzzles are neither clever nor well-explained, the characters are cardboard cutouts, and the story basically doesn't make sense. Worst of all, either through sheer laziness or in an effort to meet a publishing deadline, the author concatanates the finale into a few pages - what could have been an epic ending is definitely a disappointment.
In summary - don't bother
This book ticks all the boxes but in such a perfunctory manner that you'll be left feeling sorely disappointed. Unlike Dan Brown, the puzzles are neither clever nor well-explained, the characters are cardboard cutouts, and the story basically doesn't make sense. Worst of all, either through sheer laziness or in an effort to meet a publishing deadline, the author concatanates the finale into a few pages - what could have been an epic ending is definitely a disappointment.
In summary - don't bother
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
... is the question many readers may be asking themselves until quite late on in the book. But it does turn out to make sense - honest.
My biggest reservation about this book is the lack of intricacy in the plotting and the two dimensional characterisations.
There are basically just two story lines - what the "hero" is doing (reading, having sex and getting bashed around), and what someone else is doing. Unfortunately, despite high level action right from the start, the second story line only emerges VERY slowly.
In fact most of the book is concerned with a single, highly extended, chase sequence, mainly around the catacombs of Istambul. There is the germ of at least one other, potentially quite fascinating story line concerning the secret Brotherhood that the hero becomes involved with. But that side of the story is treated so superficially as to be effectively wasted.
Indeed, even compared with the nonsense of "The Da Vinci Code", and despite the occasional (and very brief) lectures on history and linguistics, this book definitely comes off second best.
Having said that, as a way of passing time the book has merits, and it is a long way from being the worst of its kind that I've come across. Moreover, this is the first book based on some kind of religious prophecy (imagined or real), that I've read or know of, where the resolution actually makes sound sense within the context where it is applied (sorry, can't say more without giving away a major part of the plot). It may not be as sensational as it might have been, but it IS based on sound information.
This may sound like a 3 star review, but I'd actually give it 3.5 stars - leaning towards 4 rather than 3.
My biggest reservation about this book is the lack of intricacy in the plotting and the two dimensional characterisations.
There are basically just two story lines - what the "hero" is doing (reading, having sex and getting bashed around), and what someone else is doing. Unfortunately, despite high level action right from the start, the second story line only emerges VERY slowly.
In fact most of the book is concerned with a single, highly extended, chase sequence, mainly around the catacombs of Istambul. There is the germ of at least one other, potentially quite fascinating story line concerning the secret Brotherhood that the hero becomes involved with. But that side of the story is treated so superficially as to be effectively wasted.
Indeed, even compared with the nonsense of "The Da Vinci Code", and despite the occasional (and very brief) lectures on history and linguistics, this book definitely comes off second best.
Having said that, as a way of passing time the book has merits, and it is a long way from being the worst of its kind that I've come across. Moreover, this is the first book based on some kind of religious prophecy (imagined or real), that I've read or know of, where the resolution actually makes sound sense within the context where it is applied (sorry, can't say more without giving away a major part of the plot). It may not be as sensational as it might have been, but it IS based on sound information.
This may sound like a 3 star review, but I'd actually give it 3.5 stars - leaning towards 4 rather than 3.
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85% thriller + 10% "uh oh, got to finish this quick" + 5% rubbish...
Don't want to give any of the plot away, but suffice to say about 85% of the way through this book it is revealed that artefacts are needed from 4 different locations in the... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Sixkiller
Best forgotten
I'm afraid that I have to agree with all the negative reviews regarding this novel. This was a simple, straight-forward read, but the ending was a total let-down. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Matthew Turner
hmmmm.....
As with the atlanitis code reviews, reviewers seem to have been unimpressed with this book. i will not reiterate some of the things in defense of Charles Brokaw's similarity to the... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Made In England
Unoriginal and derivative - in more ways than one...
Why did he use the same name as the excellent LUCIFER CODE by MIchael Cordy? Cordy's The Lucifer Code was written years before Dan Brown's books and all the wannabes that... Read more
Published 11 months ago by I Reed
Much better than Atlantis Code
This was much better than his previous book, The Atlantis Code.
Much better pacing for the plot, more action, Lourds still up to his sexual adventures with any woman he... Read more
Much better pacing for the plot, more action, Lourds still up to his sexual adventures with any woman he... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Munsen
Don't bother
This is utter rubbish.
I've read a few of this genre of 'thriller' and this is certainly the worst so far. Might be OK for teenagers I suppose. Read more
I've read a few of this genre of 'thriller' and this is certainly the worst so far. Might be OK for teenagers I suppose. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Paul Nicholls
Poor and boring
I like reading.. I like good books that draw me into the story and (hopefully) tie up all the loose ends at the end. Read more
Published 20 months ago by anon
Terrible book
I bought this book on the way out of Heathrow airport on my holiday, it was something like number 15 in the charts at Smith's so I thought it couldn't be too bad and sounded... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Mr. M. Hawkins
OK I'm bored now....
As much as I enjoy riding on the coat tails of Dan Brown wannabe's, I'm starting to get bored. The Lucifer Code, like most of the others, pushes the right buttons when you want... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Macready
Whiles away a journey well enough
Usual plane/train fodder this one as Mr Brokaw has his professor Thomas Lourds kidnapped at Istanbul airport, falling for the pretty young woman routine, then becoming the pawn... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Mark
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