I have an hour for lunch, and I finished reading the Metro, so I went to Walgreens and got Seven Deadly Wonders off the paperback shelf, it was across the aisle from the water filters and other such practical household devices.
I think there is a reason they are obscurely hidden in the back of the store.
The Seven Deadly Wonders website’s intro pretty much sums up the book, and was probably the best part of the reading/researching experience.
For a decent plot overview I recommend Wiki.
Seven Ancient Wonders (Seven Deadly Wonders in the United States of America) is a book written by the Australian author Matthew Reilly in 2005.
Five millennia previously, a nine-foot golden capstone sat upon the Great Pyramid. Ra’s Destroyer, a monstrous sunspot that occurs every 4,500 years, released an enormous amount of energy which was absorbed by crystal in the capstone. In 2006, seven days before the arrival of Ra’s Destroyer, the pieces of the capstone are spread across the earth. Each of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World contains a piece of the capstone from the Great Pyramid in Egypt that was divided in the time of Alexander the Great. Each of the three forces tries to find the fragments of the capstone in order to complete one of two rituals, one for worldwide peace or one that ensures a single nation’s worldwide domination for a millennia. Either ritual also protects the earth from cataclysmic destruction. In the case of the 11 Nation Alliance, the team races to protect the world from the other two groups and perform the ritual of peace.
Right then.
Essentially there are three groups traversing the globe (Africa/Middle East/Europe) by-passing Imotep’s deadly booby-traps and saying the Catholic Church and Freemasons are really directly related to the cult of Amun-Ra.
They also thrown in US/Europe and Israeli/Muslim conflicts, and of course, the Good Guy is an Australian. It gets tedious, and he abuses the exclimation mark at almost every obnoxious moment! How many quicksand pits and toxic sludge-mud/lava spewers do you really need? I need better reading (and Walgreens needs a better selection).
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