Product Description

A LOST CIVILIZATION.
A DANGEROUS QUEST.
A DEADLY SECRET.

It’s one of history’s most enduring and controversial legends—the lost city of Atlantis. Archaeologist Nina Wilde is certain she’s solved the riddle of its whereabouts—and with the help of reclusive billionaire Kristian Frost, his beautiful daughter, Kari, and ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase, she’s about to make the most important discovery in centuries. But not everyone wants them to succeed: a powerful and mysterious organization will stop at nothing to ensure that a secret submerged for 11,000 years never resurfaces.

More than one would-be discoverer has already died in pursuit of Atlantis’s secrets—including Nina’s own parents. Failure isn’t an option. From the streets of Manhattan to the Brazilian jungle, from a Tibetan mountaintop to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, Nina and Eddie will race against time—and follow a trail of danger and death to a revelation so explosive, it could destroy civilization forever….

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25710 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-29
• Released on: 2009-09-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 544 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780553592856
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. McDermott's debut, already an international bestseller, raises the bar to please adventure junkies who prefer to mainline their action. Ten years after learning that her parents had perished in an avalanche while tracking the fabled lost city of Atlantis, archeologist Nina Wilde decides to pick up where they left off. A man claiming to represent philanthropist Kristian Frost phones to invite Nina to meet him and discuss financing her quest, but he's up to no good. Fortunately, British bodyguard Eddie Chase really does work for Frost—who really does want to finance her mission—and he rescues Nina and gets the ball rolling. Distinguishing good guys from bad guys proves harder than finding Atlantis, but that won't stop readers from enjoying the adrenalin rush as Nina and Eddie tag-team their way through nonstop high-octane action scenes. (Oct.)
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Review
'Adventure stories don't get much more epic than this' -- Mirror

About the Author
Andy McDermott is a former journalist and movie critic who now writes novels full time following the international success of his debut thriller, The Hunt For Atlantis, which has been sold around the world in over 20 languages to date. He lives in Bournemouth, England.

Customer Reviews

Fast Paced and Exciting

This is another new author to me and that is because this is his first novel. You would think that a storyline which involved searching for the lost city of Atlantis would have been done to death by now, but this is a very good first novel for the author. The author is very adept at generating excitement and the book is fast paced. Like some of the previous reviewers I found it very difficult to put down.

A young female archaeologist believes that she has found the location of the lost city of Atlantis. She obviously would like to be able to prove this fact. The problem she has is that someone wants her dead. The main character Nina Wilde, the said archaeologist is a believable and likeable person and the reader can relate to her character and her race against time to find lost secret . . .

The book was very enjoyable and I was sorry when it ended. I believe the author has another book in the pipeline called The Tomb of Hercules and I shall certainly be looking out for it when it is published.

Matthew Reilly look out! More like 4-and-a-half stars...
I've read several books regarding Atlantis, and while some come closer to hitting the mark than others, I gotta say that right out of the chute Andy McDermott has struck Gold with this tale. Using a sometimes over-written topic, he has managed to inject a healthy dose of creativity into the legend of Atlantis adding a pretty large dose of action to boot. While not quite as loaded with pure adrenaline as your average Matthew Reilly novel, I have to say this story came respectably close.

Did Atlantis actually exist? I think the majority of the world would say, 'no'. But thankfully Nina Wilde isn't one of them. Her parents were lost years before on their life-long quest to prove the legend true, and now Nina picks up the scattered pieces and with the help from a reclusive billionaire, sets out to prove her theory. Unfortunately there seems to be others who are aware of Atlantis and works equally as hard to keep it from the rest of the world (honestly, isn't there ALWAYS some kind of shadow group bent on stopping people from finding these types of things?). Lucky for Nina, super stud Eddie Chase has been hired to keep an eye out for her safety--and his rather extensive talents DO come in handy as our secret 'shadow group' pulls out all the stops in order to stop the greatest historical discovery of all-time from seeing the light of day.

If you like chase scenes--and I mean adventurous and entirely original chase scenes, a creative story involving a mytholgical location, than 'The Hunt for Atlantis' really ought to be on your list of 'Must Reads'. I discovered Mr. McDermott's books while surfing around amazon one day, and went to purchase them only to discover they weren't commercially available yet in the states--even though he had written at least 4 books already (with a 5th coming very soon). How could so many reviews be available for books that weren't? Turns out amazon has been selling copies that were printed elsewhere...but fortunately Andy's books have received new life in America as they now have a stateside publisher. The book is available NOW all over (I even saw one at Walmart last week) and book 2 is scheduled to be released next month, and books 3 & 4 early next year.

Andy McDermott is now on my increasingly growing Must Read List--and having pulled that off after just one book says something if you ask me. I caution those who pick up this book: remember to suspend your belief as you begin and enjoy it for the mindless brain candy its meant to be and you will come away VERY satisfied. I am now counting the days before the next book comes out--let alone for the other novels which have already been finished but unavailable everywhere yet.

Kudos to Andy McDermott. Action/Adventure tales rarely get such fun treatment.

Great read...but a few comments
This book is 656 pages long! But here's the good part. You don't realise it. It is gripping and keeps you glued to it with lots of action packed scenes, interesting and well thought out plots, lots of different and exotic settings. The characters are pretty good and you do get a feel for them. Andy McDermott has to his credit written a huge book and written it well. The whole Atlantis theme is extremely interesting and really draws the reader into it. But I give this four stars and not five. Here is why-

1. The Atlantis theme should have been deeper than just the temples and other things. We don't really get a 'feel' of the real legend.

2. As another reviewer put it, if you remove most (not all, but most) of the action sequences, you don't really miss anything. In other words there are some really long scenes that occupy many pages and even if you don't really 'read' them, you would not really miss anything important in the story.

3. The character Eddie Chase is just a bit too much of an irritating person who just jokes too much at the wrong time. One would have liked him to be serious at times. It just does not seem believable that a guy who is so 'dangerous' would be such a joking flirt virtually all the time.

4. Nina and Kari 'roll their eyes' too much. Nina and Kari are too informal with Chase who is actually their bodyguard. And that too a bodyguard who is a wiseguy most of the time.

Otherwise it is a good read. Hopefully, the next book will stick to the real plot and not use unnecessary action as an obvious pagefulling technique and also let us see a more deeper side to the otherwise great character Eddie Chase.