- Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing; Reprint edition (Mar 1 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0446404705
- ISBN-13: 978-0446404709
- Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 3.2 x 17.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #255,997 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A cracking adventure!Enthralling' The Observer 'The action crackles along' Daily Mail 'This is a hugely entertaining thriller, very much in the vein of Matthew Reilly: an adroit mixture of action, character, and history. The author does an excellent job of keeping the story moving at a brisk clip while giving us all the historical background we require to understand what all the fuss is about, Surprisingly, considering its high quality, this is Adams' first novel.' Booklist
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Non stop adventure and death defying chases in Will Adam's outstanding debut novel. It's 318 BC in the deserts of Libya, and Alexander the Great is buried as only a God should be, placed in a golden Sarcophagus in a catacomb of chambers, each packed with diamonds, rubies and gold. This was how he should have remained, but time waits for no-one. 2007 and underwater archaeologist Daniel Knox has been on the trail of Alexander's Gold ever since he can remember. When a tomb is uncovered on the construction site of a new hotel, Daniel believes he has found the clue to what he has been working towards for years. But the discovery has alerted two of the most dangerous men in the world, and Daniel is now a marked man.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Here's one to read while you wait for the next Dan Brown,
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This review is from: The Alexander Cipher (Hardcover)
This is a genre I absolutely love - combining historical fact with fiction. Will Adams has admirably done both in The Alexander Cipher. This was Adam's debut novel - and the first in the Daniel Knox series.Knox is an Egyptologist. His primary interest is in Alexander the Great. For years, historians and archaeologists have been trying to find the final resting place of this fabled leader. When an unexplored catacomb is uncovered during the building of a parking lot, it may hold some answers. There are many groups who want to be the ones to find Alexander. For a group bent on restoring Macedonia to it's former glory, they see this discovery as a catalyst to further their cause and will stop at nothing. For Daniel, it would be the find of his life, but will it be at the cost of his life? The story cuts between seemingly disparate stories in the beginning, but all are connected to Alexander and his lost tomb. Adams gives us enough history to whet our curiosity, but not so much that your eyes glaze over. Many times I went and googled part of the story, fascinated with the history Adams presents. The undercurrents of greed, betrayal and manipulations are skillfully combined with history to produce a novel full of action, intrigue and adventure. The thrill of discovering the unknown is conveyed in his writing. Fans of Steve Berry, Dan Brown, Clive Cussler and James Rollins would enjoy this book.
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3.7 out of 5 stars (28 customer reviews) 13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
terrific thriller,
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Alexander Cipher (Hardcover)
In Alexandria, excavation of a site to construct a new hotel reveals the ruins of an ancient tomb. Construction manager Mohammed el-Dahab shuts down work to notify the authorities of the find as proscribed by Egyptian law. The Feds send archeologists to catalogue the tomb. The professionals quickly determine the artifacts come from the age of Alexander the Great. As a side consequence of an Alexander age discovery, there is renewed interest in finding the tomb of the Great Macedonian conqueror.As the fervor arises Daniel Knox works on a dive vessel in the Red Sea until his chivalrous nature gets him in trouble when the Good Samaritan rescues a woman from a sexual predatory mobster with money, connections and anger. Forced to flee, he rushes to Alexandria where he has a haven to hide in with an archeological friend Augustin until the Red Sea incident becomes forgotten. Daniel gets inside to see the new Alexandria tomb and realizes the greatness of the discovery because there are clues to where Alexander the Great was buried. He soon meets ancient Egyptian language expert Gaille Bonnard, who is part of a team working on an Alexander dig to the north. Before he knows what happened Daniel is in love and searching for Alexander's tomb. Although overwhelmed with too many subplots, THE ALEXANDER CIPHER is a terrific thriller that cleverly interweaves historical tidbits of Ancient Egypt and Macedonia during the Alexander era into the contemporary adventure. Readers will root for Knox, a sort of modern day Indiana Jones, who gets into one hot water situation after another until the audience assumes he is an over cooked hard boiled egg. Fans will enjoy his escapades in an entertaining brisk archeological thriller. Harriet Klausner 12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great Movie Script...Rambling "Sand Storm" of a novel,
By N. J. Fung "Gossinger" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Alexander Cipher (Hardcover)
This was a first good attempt by Will Adams in his attempt at fiction. He obviously has done his homework in terms of history, and his own background is well established by his knowledge of the content/geographic locale in which the book takes place. However, in reading this novel, you end up asking yourself if you've ever watched a movie where EVERYTHING was just too conveniently CO-mingled, and the realism went out the door? Despite the differences in characters, by the end of the novel, it's like this guy was trying to write the next Guy Ritchie script using an inbred family from Appalachia. The Characters all seem to have a history with one another, literally - all of them are within the 2nd degree of separation (ref: 6 degrees theory). I'm not going to give things away because the plot is well founded and makes for great reading. But the way Will Adams put this thing together, it would make for a better movie script than an actual novel.Now, don't get me wrong, and you may disagree with this. But every author writes in their own style/syntax - it seems as though Adams is trying to come into his own. There is a great deal of confusion in terms of character references. He uses a lot of pronouns without a lot of congruence. There are times when there are 2 or more characters involved in an event and it becomes a chore in deciding "who the F#" just said/did/or is the author referring?! Again, I will say that this was a good read. It would have been better, had Adams put this novel through at least one more edit. The main story, the overall plot, and its originality are great. The characters are "so-so", the back story of the characters is very blah (because of the "co-mingling" of their fates - seriously, it's like a "red-neck" family feud set in Egypt). I'm sorry...no one group of "strangers" can be so intermingled - and then flip-flopped into knowing each other because of the central belief of a deranged lunatic and his son - especially in a place so big as the Mediterranean. Which brings me to my harshest critique - the author is writing in English. But it's like he's writing Americans, Greeks, Frenchman, Australians, and Arabs like a Briton. I'm not being racist, but there are certain things that different people of the world say in terms of their manner, syntax, and slang. The text didn't come across that way. The characters were dynamic to a certain degree, but it came across a bit contrived. That and the fact that again, the pronouns (He, She, and They)were so overused that you couldn't readily tell who was doing what, without doing a double take. Overall - the book has the potential to be a better movie script. A novel...not so much. A historical view of some really neat facts on Alexander, Ptolemy, and the chaos that still plagues Egypt regarding her history - absolutely a find. To the author....try a bit more editing on the next story. But hey if you can sell this one to Hollywood...do it! 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Review by www.cymlowell.blogspot.com,
By Cym H. Lowell "www.cymlowell.blogspot.com" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Alexander Cipher (Hardcover)
Will Adams creates a new thriller character destined to be a long-running series of best sellers. Daniel Knox is a knock-around archaeologist in Egypt with a history of interesting relationships with his brethren and sponsors.The supervisor of a construction project in Alexandria stumbles onto a potential site of the final resting place of Alexander the Great, whose body was coveted as a justification for power by his successors in Egypt, the Ptolemys, Alexander's native Macedonians. The race begins in the fashion of an Indiana Jones movie. Knox is pursued by a bad guy for saving a young girl from being raped by the tyrant. Along the way, there is a budding love affair with a woman who blamed Knox for the odd death of her archaeologist father, an evil female colleague who seems easily seduced by lovers and sources of money, a little girl desperately in need of a bone marrow transplant, rich Macedonian nationalists intent on using Alexander's body as the means, after more than 2,000 years, of fomenting revolution to establish a separate Macedonia out of Greece and Balkan states. The Alexander Cipher beautifully blends the history of Alexander and his successors into an entertaining, rip-roaring, action-packed, page-turning adventure. The past of Daniel also will not remain there, as the female protagonist in the story, Gillie, moves from a hatred attributable to the strange death of her father to something more beautiful. This is an excellent, well-crafted story. It cries out for a sequel in the adventures of Daniel Knox. |
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