Product Description

The third thrilling adventure thriller featuring archaeologist Nina Wilde, in which Nina must find Excalibur, King Arthur's beloved sword. Said to make whoever holds it unstoppable in battle, the sword Excalibur has been coveted across the ages, and thought lost for over a thousand years. With a cryptic message to archaeologist Nina Wilde, this may be about to change. Historian Bernd Rust believes he can locate Excalibur...and that the sword is the key to harnessing an incredible source of energy. Nina is sceptical -- until she and Rust are attacked by mercenaries determined to steal his research. Nina and her boyfriend, ex-SAS soldier Eddie Chase, are soon propelled into a deadly race to find Excalibur. From the deserts of Syria to the arctic wastes of Russia, Nina and Chase must battle a merciless enemy who plans to use the sword's powers to plunge the world into a new era of war...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43240 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-14
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 608 pages

Review
'Adventure stories don't get much more epic than this' -- Mirror

About the Author
Andy McDermott works as a freelance writer (and occasional cartoonist) and in a previous incarnation was magazine editor for, amongst others, DVD Review and the iconoclastic film magazine Hotdog. Andy was born in West Yorkshire.

Customer Reviews

Andy keeps you on the edge of your seat!! Must Read!!!
I love this book! It is the best he has written so far!!
Non-stop action and humour in all the right places. My book had a sticker on it saying if you don't love this book, you can have your money back.....my book is certinly not geting returned!
Read it! I loved it!

An Exciting & Fun Read!
This book was definitely much better than the Tomb Of Hercules. It actually reminded me of Empire Strikes Back, in which the in-joke of that movie was the hyperdrive didn't work.

In this novel it was when Nina and Eddie were going to set the date of the wedding. Character development was so much better, a few plot twist and senseless deaths along the way, but all in all, it was a fun read! A most interesting notion on the history of Arthur and Excalibur, fact and fiction interwoven into a truly good read.

The bad guys weren't nearly as bad enough and it was interesting to introduce a quadruple agent into the story, that was hilarious!

Highly recommended over Andy's previous novel, and I'm really looking forward to his next 2 books.

good book, but frustrating writing style
The author's writing style is very reminiscent of that of Matthew Reilly. The type of action is also very very similar to Reilly's. The author makes use of short sentences, short paragraphs, and dashes to try and introduce suspense into the plot. However, I find this style of writing frustrating to read and very disjointed. That being said, the plot was interesting. Both authors utilize Indiana Jones type adventure storylines with non-stop hard-to-believe action. As one other review states, at times this gets very old and tends to drag the story out.

As a rip-roaring romping story, the book is recommended. Don't expect any deep plots or truly believable storylines, but the book is indeed a fun read.