The Lucifer Code

✍ Scribed by Brokaw, Charles

• Book ID: 108620823
• Publisher: Penguin UK
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 219 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780141957203

✦ Synopsis

From Booklist

Brokaw follows up his debut, The Atlantis Code (2009), with an equally exciting and fast-moving adventure. Thomas Lourds, the hotshot linguist, arrives in Istanbul, and before he’s even out of the airport—heck, before he’s collected his luggage—he’s met by an attractive female fan. It turns out she has plans for him (and not the kind of plans he’d been expecting), and in no time Lourds is kidnapped by some mysterious people who have a little translating they want him to do. If he can survive long enough, that is. The novel has one crucial difference from many in the increasingly overcrowded subgenre of thrillers that concern ancient mysteries: this one really moves. No clunky expository sections; no long-winded dialogue that exists only to shove information at the reader. Brokaw manages to pass along the key information (and there is plenty of it) in an efficient, lively manner. His characters, especially Lourds (who has an endearing narcissistic streak), are lively, too; the author paints them with broad brush strokes, filling in the small details as the story progresses. A very entertaining thriller. --David Pitt

Review

"Brokaw follows up his debut with an equally exciting and fast-moving adventure. This one really moves... a very entertaining thriller."

--Booklist

Praise for _The Atlantis Code:
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"Short, gripping chapters move the action from Egypt to Russia to Africa to London. Indiana Jones meets The Da Vinci Code. Look out, Dan Brown, Brokaw can play this game a lot better than most of your imitators."--Booklist

"In the 19th century, the equivalent of a blockbuster movie was a tense, thrilling novel, often told in serial form. We tend to forget that the modern novel need not be anything more significant than excellent entertainment, which is the perfect description of Charles Brokaw's The Atlantis Code. ...A rollicking adventure, with nonstop action and suspense. Readers can only hope that Brokaw is prepared to send Professor Lourds on further quests."--Publishers Weekly

"If you enjoyed the Da Vinci Code, The Atlantis Code will take you to a new level of mystery, wonder, adventure and excitement. This book will enthrall you and at the same time connect you in a very intimate way with the mystery of your sacred existence."--Deepak Chopra

"A winning combination of all the ingredients an adventure addict could want: great action, intrepid archeologists, dark conspiracies, cliffhangers, and a real sense of wonder."--Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Paul of Dune and author of The Edge of the World

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"Brokaw's hero is Indiana Jones without the whip. Who knew archeology could be so exciting? Wonderful entertainment."--Stephen Coonts,New York Times bestselling author of The Traitor

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"Storytelling doesn't get much better than this. I've set this one aside to read again!"--David Hagberg,New York Times bestselling author of The Expediter

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