Kirjahaku

After a series of deadly museum robberies, where cultural treasures of Viking origin are stolen, historian Dr. Nina Gould is intrigued and infuriated. She elicits help from her friend, investigative journalist Sam Cleave, to see if they can discover and expose the culprits. Nina thinks that she may have befriended one of the robbers involved, and so begins the chase to uncover the truth. However, Nina has no idea that in doing so she will discover a secret war waged by ancient societies under the very nose of the modern world.Involving Sam in her search, the two of them find that the Order of the Black Sun is actively in pursuit of one of Norse Mythology's greatest legends - Valhalla. Believed to be the prison of an ancient evil which could help the Nazi's rule the world, Valhalla becomes the focal point of Lita R deric, a nefarious Aryan villain unmatched in mind or means.Nina and Sam become involved with The Brotherhood, an ancient order of warriors sworn to protect the secret location of Valhalla. They realize that the relic the robbers sought is a vial containing an elixir of second sight, a precious key to the location of the earthly Hall of the Slain which Nina is entrusted with. However, when Sam inadvertently drinks the elixir, giving him visions of where Valhalla lies, he is thrust into the world of The Brotherhood along with Nina.Now they are locked in a deadly race to find Odin's Hall before the Nazi's claim the powerful weapon within and destroy the free world to usher in the Master Race. Will Sam and Nina survive the perilous quest against the terrible Lita R deric in her pursuit of world domination? Does Valhalla even exist? And if so, what lies inside that would bring about Ragnarok? With the modern world in ignorant bliss, only The Brotherhood, the relentless knights of the Hammer, can save it from the dreadful fate of ultimate Nazi domination.The Quest for Valhalla leads the reader on a roller-coaster ride in search of a legend. Packed with breathtaking suspense and nerve-shredding action, The Quest for Valhalla is a thrilling read for all fans of action, suspense, and intrigue. A word from the author: Hello and thank you for your interest in my book. It has come to my attention that some people have been mistaking my books for those written by the famous author duo Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. This is not the case. I wish to clarify that I am not, by any means, related to Douglas Preston or Lincoln Child, Lee Child or any other author called Preston Child. I hope this clears up the confusion.

Sam Cleave, reporter for a small newspaper, has seen better days. After his partner was killed during an undercover investigation, he lost his passion for work and living. But when a resident of a nearby assisted living home is tortured and murdered in a barbaric manner, he starts investigating. He is especially intrigued when a mysterious box is given to him that belonged to the dead man, but he needs help to interpret what it means.He teams up with Nina Gould, an expert in World War II history. Soon the two of them realize that they are about to discover one of the best-guarded secrets of the war, It dawns on them that this would be the discovery of a lifetime, a discovery of immeasurable value, and a discovery that men would kill for.They join an expedition, sponsored by an eccentric billionaire, hunting for gold and breathtaking art buried deep below the Antarctic surface. Instead of gold and stolen art, they find something terrifyingly disturbing beneath the eternal ice. A team of Nazi scientists has made an amazing discovery. But experiments have gone terribly wrong. The situation gets out of hand, and before long the expedition members find themselves peering into the deepest recesses of the human soul. Nina and Sam realize that their only hope for survival is to unlock the secrets of Ice Station Wolfenstein.Ice Station Wolfenstein leads the reader on a roller-coaster ride in search of a legend. Packed with breathtaking suspense and nerve-shredding action, Ice Station Wolfenstein is a thrilling read for all fans of action, suspense, and intrigue.A word from the author: Hello and thank you for your interest in my book. It has come to my attention that some people have been mistaking my books for those written by the famous author duo Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. This is not the case. I wish to clarify that I am not, by any means, related to Douglas Preston or Lincoln Child, Lee Child or any other author called Preston Child. I hope this clears up the confusion.

Investigative journalist Sam Cleave finds himself running from the site of an execution he barely escapes. Chased by a sinister militia captain with Nazi roots and a penchant for setting dogs on his targets, he has to stay alive long enough to deliver the damning evidence on his camera to the authorities.His long time friend, Dr. Nina Gould, is contracted by a Czech anthropologist and heiress to search for a lost Nazi treasure stolen from her family and taken to Romania, and she invites Sam to join them on their excursion. They learn that the item is a deck of tarot cards from antique Prague, said to have the ability to alter time and space to the will of the person who lays out the spread, thus undoing history and reshuffling physics to change the world to suit whomever owns the deck - therefore an invaluable treasure to the Order of the Black Sun Nazi organisation.Their pursuit of the item leads them to Sam Cleave, already on their hit list, but what they do not know is that their employer, a secret member of the Black Sun, has other plans for the evil tarot cards. She employs the talents of a 10 year old homeless street thief to help her attain power by teaching him how to work the tarot. While Sam and Nina help their Czech employer to locate the cards, they are subjected to the inexplicable and ominous forces of the Hoia Baciu forest of Transylvania, reputed to be the most haunted forest in the world. It was here where the last owner of the deck met his end, so they have to enter the embrace of the devilish woodlands to seek the wicked cards that could thwart history and bring about unbridled chaos to the world.They have to find the deck before the wrong faction does, but in their midst a traitor lurks to fulfil his own ideals and a series of strange occurrences prove that someone else is using the cards already. In the company of Romani Gypsies the party quickly learns the history of the local man who brought the cards here and, under influence of its evil eventually lost his life to protect The Black Tarot of Hoia Baciu ...Nazi Gold leads the reader on a roller-coaster ride in search of a legend. Packed with breathtaking suspense and nerve-shredding action, Nazi Gold is a thrilling read for all fans of action, suspense, and intrigue. A word from the author: Hello and thank you for your interest in my book. It has come to my attention that some people have been mistaking my books for those written by the famous author duo Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. This is not the case. I wish to clarify that I am not, by any means, related to Douglas Preston or Lincoln Child, Lee Child or any other author called Preston Child. I hope this clears up the confusion.

In their attempt to seek refuge with the Black Sun's opposition organization, the Brigade Apostate, Sam and Nina are pressed with the task of locating the missing leader of the Black Sun and delivering her within a designated time frame. If they do not, three of their friends will be executed.The council, upper-level members of the Black Sun, is also seeking the missing leader, Renata, and the members have a good idea that billionaire Dave Purdue might be harboring her since he kidnapped her after defecting from their ranks.While Sam and Nina are looking for Renata, they team up with Dave Purdue and his sister, Agatha, to assist in locating an ancient journal for Agatha's clients. But the journal holds more than historical value. Its riddles contain the location of the Atlantis Scrolls, the actual records on which the location of the legendary submerged continent is mentioned. As the four of them progress in finding clues, Agatha learns that her clients are not who they seem and that her brother and his friends are in far more danger than they know.Now Sam and Nina have to uncover the secrets of the Atlantis Scrolls while evading the council and appeasing the Brigade Apostate. Will they be able to save their friends before being detained or killed? Or will they find the lost continent of Atlantis in their pursuit of truth locked in the papyrus of ancient history?A word from the author: Hello and thank you for your interest in my book. It has come to my attention that some people have been mistaking my books for those written by the famous author duo Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. This is not the case. I wish to clarify that I am not, by any means, related to Douglas Preston or Lincoln Child, Lee Child or any other author called Preston Child. I hope this clears up the confusion. #1 - Ice Station Wolfenstein #2 - Deep Sea One #3 - Black Sun Rising #4 - The Quest for Valhalla #5 - Nazi Gold#6 - Black Sun ConspiracyThe Atlantis Scrolls leads the reader on a roller-coaster ride in search of a legend. Packed with breathtaking suspense and nerve-shredding action, The Atlantis Scrolls is a thrilling read for all fans of action, suspense, and intrigue.

Archaeologist Dr. Nina Gould swears she is making a new start away from the toils of the past few years and decides to purchase an old house in her former hometown of Oban, Scottland. But little does she know that the house comes with an unsavory history, one that is a bit too close to comfort; especially when an old university friend looks her up and introduces her to a mysterious and odd American lecturer with a family history connected to her house.When Sam Cleave assists the agents of MI6 to gather intelligence on a corrupt Dutch financier, he finds out that the embezzler is in fact a member of the council, the veteran society managing the Order of the Black Sun. With his investigation of the man, Jaap Roodt, Sam finds out that Nina's life is in danger. She stands in the way of the completion of the Longinus, a fierce and deadly biological weapon set to destroy the world and facilitate the Nazi ritual to bring back the Old Gods by means of the manipulation of advanced physics. Sam needs to find her before the council's assassins do.To obtain the arcane information needed to complete the Longinus, the Black Sun sends Dave Purdue to retrieve it from a place that might or might not even exist-The Library of Forbidden Books. While looking for the deadly codes he needs to collect, Purdue is reunited with Sam and Nina, who are fleeing from the assassins of the council while accompanied by Nina's old university friend and the strange American lecturer.But when they all team up to find the knowledge held in the legendary library, they realize that not all of them have the same intentions for the information contained therein. Which of them have nefarious agendas? And which of them are honestly trying to avert the release of the dreaded biological agent?It is a question that can only be answered within The Library of Forbidden Books ...A word from the author: Hello and thank you for your interest in my book. It has come to my attention that some people have been mistaking my books for those written by the famous author duo Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. This is not the case. I wish to clarify that I am not, by any means, related to Douglas Preston or Lincoln Child, Lee Child or any other author called Preston Child. I hope this clears up the confusion. The Library of Forbidden Books leads the reader on a roller-coaster ride in search of a legend. Packed with breathtaking suspense and nerve-shredding action, The Library of Forbidden Books is a thrilling read for all fans of action, suspense, and intrigue.

Dr. Nina Gould is dealing with her illness as best she can - by cutting ties with her two best friends and colleagues, David Purdue and Sam Cleave. She takes a contract offer in Hampshire, England, to lecture at a quaint, privately owned College, St. Vincent's Academy of History and Science. There she meets the Dean's mother who intrigues her with tales of the antique fountain in the courtyard, The Fountain of Youth, reputed to have been the real deal - even sought by the Nazi elite once.While giving Nina her space, Sam Cleave travels to the Faroe Islands to cover the ever-lurid whale hunts, but soon finds himself engrossed in the fascinating WWII historical sites on the islands. He befriends some locals who enlighten Sam on a lot of misunderstood myths, as well as turning him on to some well-founded ones. He calls Purdue for advice on an interesting find, having no idea that the billionaire explorer already has a lot on his plate.In addition to getting caught up in an unsavory discovery while undergoing therapy at the Sinclair Institute, Purdue has been caught in a homicide case that points to his own medical staff. Inadvertently he discovers Nina's true condition and, riddled with guilt, embarks on a frantic and perilous search to find a cure for her malady. But when he tracks her to her location to bring her a prospective cure, Nina has disappeared without a trace.With Dr. Gould's worsening condition and a nefarious agent of the Order of the Black Sun after her, will Purdue and Sam be able to find her in time to use the water from the Fountain of Youth to keep her from dying?

A high school group off on a long weekend in the Newfoundland woods discover human remains. Unbeknownst to the authorities, one of the history teachers finds an ancient coin with the body, keeping it a secret. When the teacher contacts her old college friend, Dr. Nina Gould, she suggests to Nina that the coin could be a remnant from the era of Alexander the Great.Meanwhile, in Nina's hometown, a kidnapper has been employed to capture her in order to get to billionaire explorer David Purdue, a close friend of Nina's. Having staged his own death to avoid arrest by MI6, he's proving a tricky target to locate and Nina is the kidnapper's only link. However, once the kidnapper makes his move, reports of two different women missing from the town of Oban surface, causing a host of confusion around the abductions.Up in Newfoundland, renowned journalist Sam Cleave joins in the search for the hoard the teacher's coin came from, having no idea that Purdue is engaged in a fight for his life back in Scotland. Upon discovery of a document issued by a Waffen-SS officer from World War II, the team realize that there is more to the legend of Alexander's hidden treasure than they thought. The document contains a diagram of a deserted weather station built by German forces during the war and mentions Operation Olympias, a retrieval mission that went horribly wrong.Now Purdue must survive long enough to discover the involvement of MI6 in a cover-up for his estate, while Sam meets the cursed creatures guarding the underground Nazi tomb where the reputed hidden treasure of Alexander the Great lies ...A word from the author: Hello and thank you for your interest in my book. It has come to my attention that some people have been mistaking my books for those written by the famous author duo Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. This is not the case. I wish to clarify that I am not, by any means, related to Douglas Preston or Lincoln Child, Lee Child or any other author called Preston Child. I hope this clears up the confusion.Hunt for the Lost Treasure leads the reader on a roller-coaster ride in search of a legend. Packed with breathtaking suspense and nerve-shredding action, Hunt for the Lost Treasure is a thrilling read for all fans of action, suspense, and intrigue ...

At the CERN laboratory in Switzerland the Large Hadron Collider is being constructed with several teams of scientists and engineers working on the assembly of the various detectors, which will be recording data once the Collider is up and running to test previously elusive theories of physics.When Prof. Lydia Jenner, a terminally ill ex-colleague of billionaire inventor Dave Purdue, contacts him to assist her in a clandestine experiment to prove a rather absurd theory based on the work of genius engineer and scientist Nikola Tesla, he is intrigued. But upon his arrival he finds that the nearly incapacitated woman wants to use him as a test subject.Investigative journalist Sam Cleave is at CERN to interview an engineer about an incident at the ALICE detector, in which a mysterious fire gave rise to rumors of sabotage. During his investigations he runs into Purdue who brings him in to record the secret experiment. But during the test run of the Voyager III, Jenner's experimental time travel device, Purdue disappears into the past. He wakes up in Nazi Germany, inside Hitler's bunker and is forced to convince the SS High Command that he is a scientist affiliated with famed inventor Nikola Tesla. During his tumultuous time stuck in 1944, he has to find a way to contact Jenner to find his way back to 2015 within three days or else he is stuck there forever. But his travel back home is marred by Sam's trouble with opposing scientists who are trying to find the missing design of the teleforce weapon designed by Tesla, a deadly ray gun that would immerse the world into WWIII if it was ever built.Will Purdue find the elusive design and will he make it back on time? It is up to Sam, Nina and Prof. Jenner to make sure Purdue returns home from the trappings of the Tesla Experiment.A word from the author: Hello and thank you for your interest in my book. It has come to my attention that some people have been mistaking my books for those written by the famous author duo Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. This is not the case. I wish to clarify that I am not, by any means, related to Douglas Preston or Lincoln Child, Lee Child or any other author called Preston Child. I hope this clears up the confusion.The Tesla-Experiment leads the reader on a roller-coaster ride in search of a legend. Packed with breathtaking suspense and nerve-shredding action, The Tesla-Experiment is a thrilling read for all fans of action, suspense, and intrigue.

A strange and terrifying ability surfaces in investigative journalist Sam Cleave, leaving his associate, Dr. Nina Gould, worried for his health. But Sam is not the one she should be worried about. Nina discovers that Sam's psychic talent is not meant to help others - quite the opposite.Somewhere Sam has contracted a parasite that attacks the brain, facilitating heightened powers of hypnotic suggestion through increased electrical activity in the neurons. In other words - mind control.When their mutual friend, David Purdue, is kidnapped and tortured by an evil Nazi by the name of Klaus Kemper, a distant connection to Sam's malady comes into play. Kemper knows that Sam's psychic powers are the work of an ancient organism that happens to be caught within the amber resin used in the legendary lost art masterpiece, the Amber Room, and he wants the power it holds to brainwash the world into submission.Reputed to have been destroyed during WWII, Purdue, Sam, and Nina embark on a quest to find the Amber Room. They have 48 hours to deliver it to Kemper or else the Order of the Black Sun will execute the German Chancellor and subjugate the countries of the European Union. But the last lost pieces of the Amber Room are hidden by a clandestine Red Army unit under one of the most inaccessible and hazardous locations in the world - the Chernobyl Power Plant.A word from the author: Hello and thank you for your interest in my book. It has come to my attention that some people have been mistaking my books for those written by the famous author duo Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. This is not the case. I wish to clarify that I am not, by any means, related to Douglas Preston or Lincoln Child, Lee Child or any other author called Preston Child. I hope this clears up the confusion.Mystery of the Amber Room leads the reader on a roller-coaster ride in search of a legend. Packed with breathtaking suspense and nerve-shredding action, Mystery of the Amber Room is a thrilling read for all fans of action, suspense, and intrigue.

Billionaire Dave Purdue buys an antique art piece, a tall cross monument, from a Finnish relic dealer. But the old cross holds a secret-literally. When the cross is struck by lightning, it reveals part of a treasure that urges Purdue to enlist the help of investigative journalist Sam Cleave to assist him on his search for the rest of it.When historian Dr. Nina Gould barely escapes with her life from an archeological dig in the Himalayas, she is compelled to return to the excavation to see what her team was prevented from discovering. The man who saved her life, archeologist Neville Padayachee, refuses to return there. Braving the freezing temperatures, she returns alone only to encounter what she perceives as a real-life yeti. Subsequently a captive, Nina is forced to steal a technological masterpiece from the same dig site she worked on.But when Purdue and Cleave locate her to assist them with the riddle of the antique cross and its inscriptions referring to the Norse god Odin, they find Nina delirious and on the brink of death with the peculiar device still in her possession. Her possession of the device ignites a dangerous excursion while she, Sam, and Purdue have to unravel the secret left by a Polish prisoner of war to his son after the Second World War. It is a secret that leads them to a grave mystery only perpetuated by conspiracy theorists. Trains buried with gold, hollow Earth theories and the myth of super men take on a whole new meaning when Nina, Sam, and Purdue discover the tomb of Odin and are intrigued to find what the currency of life really is.A word from the author: Hello and thank you for your interest in my book. It has come to my attention that some people have been mistaking my books for those written by the famous author duo Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. This is not the case. I wish to clarify that I am not, by any means, related to Douglas Preston or Lincoln Child, Lee Child or any other author called Preston Child. I hope this clears up the confusion. Tomb of Odin leads the reader on a roller-coaster ride in search of a legend. Packed with breathtaking suspense and nerve-shredding action, Tomb of Odin is a thrilling read for all fans of action, suspense, and intrigue.

Billionaire explorer David Purdue accidentally steals the wrong relic from under the nose of an old foe, archaeologist Prof. Rita Medley. What he doesn't know, however, is that her husband, who is always by her side, is part of the mafia family Cosa Nostra and harbors some secrets of his own.Meanwhile, investigative journalist Sam Cleave learns that the daughter of his best friend, MI6 agent Patrick Smith, has been abducted from her home. Patrick blames his involvement with Sam Cleave and Dave Purdue for his daughter's kidnapping. But Sam, investigating the kidnappings, realizes that the young girl is but one of seven girls taken from all over Europe. What they've been kidnapped for, is the awful question.When Prof. Medley and her unsavory husband track Purdue down for the relic he stole, Purdue cuts a deal with them to help locate the Vault of Hercules, an arcane legend known only to those who have possessed the stolen relic before. Historian Dr. Nina Gould accompanies Purdue, Cleave, and Prof. Medley's people on an expedition to Greece to find the vault, which reputedly alters regular children into proverbial demigods. But both Prof. Medley's husband and Sam have hidden agendas fueling their reasons for locating the chamber. Sam finds out that the abduction of the girls is linked to the search for the vault, but will he be able to save the children without exposing his mission? Time is running out for the kidnapped girls, while the expedition party barely functions in the midst of all the distrust and danger. Will they be able to make it to Greece on time to discover the Vault of Hercules before falling prey to forces on their tracks?A word from the author: Hello and thank you for your interest in my book. It has come to my attention that some people have been mistaking my books for those written by the famous author duo Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. This is not the case. I wish to clarify that I am not, by any means, related to Douglas Preston or Lincoln Child, Lee Child or any other author called Preston Child. I hope this clears up the confusion.The Vault of Hercules leads the reader on a roller-coaster ride in search of a legend. Packed with breathtaking suspense and nerve-shredding action, The Vault of Hercules is a thrilling read for all fans of action, suspense, and intrigue.

The discovery of a shipwreck off the coast of South Africa has the academic career of failing lecturer, Dr. Billy Malgas, back on track. However, he and his assistant decide to keep it a secret until the ship has been salvaged. To aid them with the publicity, Malgas contacts an old acquaintance to film the salvage for a documentary - none other than investigative journalist Sam Cleave.Sam enlists the help of his usual partners, historian Dr. Nina Gould and billionaire inventor Dave Purdue, to assist him in the mission to salvage not only the wreck but Dr. Malgas' withering career. Some other people Dr. Malgas hired for the expedition turn out to harbor secrets about their intentions and identities, each having their very own reason for joining the venture. Once the mysterious wreck is located, Crystal Meyer, Purdue's financial partner on the excursion, summons one of her contractors from Egypt to bring his tug boat to join them in the Indian Ocean. But Crystal has a secret too, and an unfortunate turn of events turns a simple salvage operation into an open sea nightmare.Between the secrets of the crew and the secret of the enigmatic ship they are trying to recover, matters escalate quickly, leaving Purdue, Nina and Sam in a race against time before the dark secret of the ship takes them all to the bottom of the ocean. Of all the secrets, the Seventh Secret is the deadliest ...A word from the author: Hello and thank you for your interest in my book. It has come to my attention that some people have been mistaking my books for those written by the famous author duo Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. This is not the case. I wish to clarify that I am not, by any means, related to Douglas Preston or Lincoln Child, Lee Child or any other author called Preston Child. I hope this clears up the confusion.The Seventh Secret leads the reader on a roller-coaster ride in search of a legend. Packed with breathtaking suspense and nerve-shredding action, The Seventh Secret is a thrilling read for all fans of action, suspense, and intrigue.