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De Vloek Van De Farao (2011)

by Scott Mariani(Favorite Author)

4 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

9026149123 (ISBN13: 9789026149122)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

De Fontein

series

Ben Hope

review 1: A much more engaging read than 'The Doomsday Prophecy'. I find Egyptian history fascinating and having been to a number of the places mentioned in the story just made the whole thing so much more interesting. The heretic of the title is Akhenaten who moved his people away from the worship of multiple gods to the worship of one god - the Sun god. Despised by most of his people, it is suggested that three high priests who opposed this idea began to steal away the heretic's treasures and hide them for a future generation to enjoy. Clues were left as to where the treasure might be found and now, hundreds of years later, the race is on to find them. Greed is a powerful motivator and some will stop at nothing to get want they want. Our hero, Ben Hope, thinks he is helping an old... more friend find out who murdered his son in Egypt - but all is not what it seems. There are a number of twists in this one that keeps it interesting. There is of course the obligatory "there's no way that's even possible" scene, but it is fiction after all. Looking forward to the next one.
review 2: Scott Mariani is a thriller writer worthy of the place he's earned on many readers bookshelves, including my own -- and I've gradually been working my way through the earlier books in his Ben Hope series (having fist come to Mariani's works by reading his most recent). Of all of them I've yet read (and I've rather enjoyed them all), The Heretic's Treasure is by far his strongest work: the pace is non-stop and tense throughout, yet somehow manages to grow even more so as you approach the book's climax, which brings with it a series of twists I hadn't seen coming. We get to know his chief character, Benedict Hope, in some more depth here, with his back-story woven into the active storyline adeptly and without being burdensome; and we winds up being a tormented soul that we like, care about, and pine with when things at times go from bad to worse.Mariani is a master at throwing readers off the mark: he plants just enough 'predictable' twists into his plots that you think you've sorted them out -- but these are merely decoys for the true twists that you rarely see approaching, and that's part of the great fun of his novels.It's a superb read and I highly recommend. I could nit-pick about a few, extremely minor points (e.g. a tendency for the POV to wander about, or the mildly annoying fact that the Kindle version of all his books seem to have a chronic problem with missing inverted commas [i.e. quotation marks] opening and closing quotations hither and thither, which can make for some confusion every so often); but none of these can really detract from what is an excellent thriller that had me glued to my Kindle for a speedy, pleasant read.On to the next . . . less

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