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    The Secret of the Stones
    The Secret of the Stones
    The Secret of the Stones
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Secret of the Stones

    Written by Ernest Dempsey

    Narrated by John Glouchevitch

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    About this audiobook

    They tried to kill him to cover up an ancient secret. Now Sean Wyatt is plunged head first into a race against time to save his best friend and the lives of billions.

    A four-thousand-year-old mystery lurks in the hills of Georgia. While investigating a strange series of ancient symbols, an archaeologist vanishes, and a professor he entrusted with the secret is murdered.

    Former government agent Sean Wyatt learns of his friend's disappearance and the murder. Now he must unravel the clues to the ancient mystery that holds incredible power.

    To save his friend, Sean will have to fight off highly trained mercenaries in hand to hand combat, violent shootouts, and high speed car chases through the Blue Ridge Mountains. And in the end, what he learns will change the history books as we know them.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJun 26, 2018
    ISBN9781977385802
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    • 5/5
      Great story! Can't wait to continue it in the second book!
    • 4/5
      I like the story and the history along the way. I also live in Georgia and enjoyed the local references. The Secret of the Stones was an enjoyable read, just a bit drawn out.
    • 2/5
      Couldn’t listen to the speaker - every sentence sounds the same Can’t say much a out the story.
    • 1/5
      Not worth your reading time, at least it wasn't worth mine. At least it was short. A thriller in the DaVinci Code/Indiana Jones genre: an academic (or in this case several academics) in pursuit of a mystical artifact, pursued by religious cultists and sinister foreigners. Path strewn with corpses; riddles solved too easily by two separate teams of seekers; stray people joining the chase for no apparent reason. Writing adequate but filled with word selections not quite right, scattered with emotional reactions inappropriate to the circumstances, implausible scientific details, and odd character motivations. And to top it off, ends with hanging threads presumably to entice you into reading a subsequent book. No thanks.
    • 5/5
      Secret of the Stones by Ernest Dempsey4.5 starsFrom The Book:Sean Wyatt's learns his best friend has been kidnapped while working on a secret project. Sean and his new acquaintance, Allyson Webster, embark on a mission to solve a series of ancient clues they he hopes will lead to whoever kidnapped his friend. The riddles lead them on a dangerous chase through the southeastern United States and to a four thousand year-old secret that is bigger than anything they could have ever imagined.My Thoughts:I liked this book so much more than I ever thought possible. It's filled from cover to cover with action, suspense, a murder and a history lesson....so what's not to like? Fiction and legend are mixed to develop a theory on the origins of Native Americans on the North American continent. The reader doesn't have to agree with the theory to be entertained by the content and the process that provided the theory. Betrayal sets the stage for the next book and I believe I will be on a search for it.
    • 5/5
      In "The Secret of the Stones" Ernest Dempsey introduces his action hero, Sean Wyatt. Wyatt is a mixture of Indiana Jones and James Bond. Dempsey gives some background for Sean and we find out that he is an archeologist and was a former government agent in a clandestine organization known as Axis. The novel reminds me somewhat of Clive Cussler, where the story begins in the past and then is tied in to the present. Cussler's hero, Dirk Pitt, collects classic cars while Wyatt collects motorcycles.The story begins with Tommy Schultz giving Frank Borringer, a professor at Kennisaw State University, a stone disc with writings on one side. The message was written in four separate dead languages and Borringer was one of the few people who could decipher it. Once done, Frank puts the message in an envelope and drops it in the mail. This was done just in time as Borringer was murdered by a German who was after the translation.Tommy Schultz, a childhood friend of Sean Wyatt, was willed millions of dollars by his parents and used the money to found the IAA, or International Archaeological Agency. Schultz is kidnapped by the German in order for him to help find the four chambers of gold that legend attributed to the Cherokee Indians. Meanwhile, Sean was finishing up an interview with Allyson Webster, a journalist for the Atlanta Sentinel, when a group of mercenaries tried to kill him. The instincts and training he received from Axis kicked in and Sean was able to put down his attackers and flee the scene with Allyson in tow.Detective Trent Morris and his partner Will Hastings were assigned to head up the murder investigation. Morris had reason to believe that Wyatt was involved and was implicated in the murder of Frank Borringer and the kidnapping of Tommy Schultz. Sean and Allyson were on the run with their main goal of finding his friend Tommy. Sean enlists the help of his friend Joe McElroy, who was an expert in Native American cultures. Tommy, forced to help the German, and Sean were in a race to see who would be the first to find the chambers. One clue led to another as they went to state parks all over Georgia to decipher the riddle of the stones.Dempsey mixes fact with fiction and legend as he develops a theory on the origins of Native Americans on the North American continent.. The book is filled with action and suspense and we get a history lesson in the process. The book was hard to put down and I finished it in rather a short time. A betrayal by one of the characters caught me off guard and set the stage for the next novel. While I do not agree with Dempsey's theory, it did provide some food for thought. The only negative I found was a poor job of editing, but I am willing to overlook that. If you are a fan of the Da Vinci code, then you will enjoy this book as I did. I look forward to the further adventures of Sean Wyatt.