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The Moses Quest (2008)

by Will Adams(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0446563218 (ISBN13: 9780446563215)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Grand Central Publishing

series

Daniel Knox

review 1: Daniel Knox reminds me of Indiana Jones with his relaxed manner except when someone he cares for is in danger."On the trail of the Dead Sea Scrolls, archaeologist, Daniel Knox stumbles upon a theft in progress at an ancient temple near Alexandria. Then a senior Egyptian archaeologist is violently killed ,the finger of suspicion is pointing at Knox. To add to his worries, his partner Gaille Bonnard is kidnapped while showing a television crew around the ruins of Amarna. She manages to smuggle out a message pleading with Knox to rescue her but he's locked in a cell on suspicion of murder hundreds of miles away. His only hope of clearing his name and saving Gaille is to crack one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the ancient world...before it's too late."This story has g... morereat action and adventure,heroism and a lot of Egyptian history. I like the different theories of Adam and Eve and the Jews Exodus from Egypt and other characters in the bible and other historical documents. It had gunplay and police chases in ancient Egypt which I found interesting and the narrator's descriptions and imitations made it seem like an action movie was playing in my head. Loved the Indiana Jones stories and Knox will be my new hero too.
review 2: The blurb for this book on this site begins by saying that "fact collides with fiction." Well, that at least is accurate. Unfortunately, fact gets knocked clean out and tossed from the book right away. I found it amusing that this book makes fun of a character who writes books that put forward wild and sensational theories about history. This character gets taken down a few pegs by an archeologist who points out his complete lack of evidence, yet the author happily goes about his story inventing even wilder ideas and allowing his characters to unbelievably stumble across fictional evidence -- how very convenient to be able to make up your own evidence and justify one character while maligning another even though there is very little difference between them in terms of their ability to come up with wild theories. Being somewhat familiar myself with the Bible and with the history of its writing, I found it laughable how little the author of this book understands his subject, and how quick he is to accept and put forth as fact theories about the writing and history of the Bible which are not at all well proven or universally accepted in archeological circles. And the cave of treasures?!? Never even heard of it before. Must be in some apocryphal book I suppose -- probably written long after the Pentateuch. Yet in the book, Knox talks about it as if it is in the Bible and anyone familiar with the Bible will know about it. I could go on and on, but there is no point. So, I'll finish off by asking, am I the only one who finds it really irritating when authors make ordinary human characters (especially men) act as if they are superhuman by continuing to accomplish amazing physical feats after having severe concussions AND being beat up, AND being knocked over the head again, AND AND AND . . .Oh, but the lead female character gets hit on the head once and is unconscious through much of the story and ends up in the hospital for a long time! Huh! less

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