Mystery/Thriller -- 1 star
A prominent archaeologist disappears from the records of the British Geographical Society during World War I. After the war ends, a journalist, looking to create a feature story, questions why such a leader in his field would suddenly be eliminated from the Society's records. ----- Ancient cultures, archaeological digs, hidden civilizations, conspiracy theories--this is the stuff of an Indiana Jones type thriller. Instead...major disappointment. Ridiculous scenarios: a British 16 year old launches (from Spain where he is only visiting and knows no one) and heads a search party to South America two days after his father fails to return from a trip to England (because he thinks that's where his father might have gone without bothering to tell his son who is visiting him in Spain). And this is not helped by bad, choppy writing: (multiple paragraphs consisting of one short sentence.) I read this on a Kindle, so the weird paragraph structure may have been the result of bad formatting; but even so, I felt like I was reading a self-published graphic novel without the pictures.
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