225) Dome in the Greek Pantheon? No, that would be the Roman Pantheon. A seat belt fails during a crash, but the woman has e better grip? Ten plus twenty plus thirty equals fifty? (p. "A legion of centurions"? A legion stationed in Bethany? (So many New testament misquotes that I suspect McCray has never read it.) The fish predated the cross symbol for Christians by "a millennium"? No, about a century. (Why does she has three Ph.D.s? To impress the reader?) If the French aren't welcoming military aircraft, how did they get into French air space? Confusing RPGs with SAMs. Some of which are: A squad of American special ops goes off radar for four days, leaving a trail of bodies, cash withdrawals (from where?) and stolen (and usually wrecked) vehicles, and nobody asks why? (During which they are all wounded, burned, one electrocuted, and get little sleep.) Why would "the brass" care about Lochum and his research to start with? The Vikings were a "great civilization"? There's a difference between genetic variation and mutation, which a PH.D. Whether science fiction, romance, thriller or western, there is an unwritten contract between author and reader that, at some level, the story makes sense. Someone has devised a plot sillier than Dan Brown's and told it in comic book fashion but with no credibility at all. Like I said, it was just TOO much and pushed it too far for me to like this book. REALLY, people who work their whole life preserving history destroy items, markers, and relics for no other reason than to get to the object first!!! Lastly, here are some great scientist, archeological buffs, and religious zealots who have NO problem destroying any sacred historical place or object. It was like the author put all these characters in a vacuum and said, "have at it" and don't worry about the rest of the world interfering on your trek, I will keep them out of it! It was just TOO much to take the book seriously, even remotely. They cause all these explosions, firefights, and chases - and the rest of the world didn't impact this story. There are gun battles with this book, explosions, car chases, airplane crashes, killings, underground explosions causing cave-ins at tourist sites, and the desecration of holy sites - all motivated to get to the next archeological fact first!Īll through these crazy acts, no government or city authorities seem to register this group at all. I was in the military and I have lived overseas. Not even for an author to take some literary license, yet this one took out the licensing bureau! The action was so outrageous it was not believable. I didn't like the book because it was not believable in the actions taking place. Wow, I gave a book only one star- yet I read the whole book! I didn't like the book, but it had nothing to do with the advertised controversial view on biblical history.
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