In this slick adventure thriller, an antiques dealer, whose grandfather has suddenly and suspiciously died, teams up with a veteran treasure hunter to follow a series of clues in the dead man’s journal. The trail leads the pair across the world, as they chase after some valuable historical documents while keeping one small step ahead of some very nasty pursuers. Readers of James Rollins or Steve Berry (or fans of the Indiana Jones movies) will be on solid ground here and probably won’t mind that the story is perhaps a bit too derivative. The two leads, antiques dealer Storm Syrell and shifty treasure hunter Harry Bennett, are well constructed and likable, and Bunn, author of more than 15 previous novels, including the Marcus Glenwood legal-thriller series, keeps things moving at a brisk clip. Most of Bunn’s previous work has been marketed at readers of Christian fiction, but this one can be confidently recommend to fans of globetrotting thrillers as well.
