The second Mission is for the base of the mirror at the top of the Pharos Lighthouse concealed in Tunisia at Hamilcar's refuge, the third Mission is an inmate break out from Guantanamo Bay via its golf course, the fourth Mission for the Statue of Zeus and Temple of Artemis, it's capstone pieces now located at the Louvre and Vatican. A race against the European team headed by Captain del Piero and the Americans led by West's old mentor, Marshall Judah, with the vicious Cal Kallis of the American CIEF force. The first mission finds the team locating the head of the Colossus in the Sudan.
To compound the problem ,as six of the seven wonders no longer exist they all got moved elsewhere and only a little girl, named Lily, has the ability to read the work of Thoth and translate the text pointing to where each piece is hidden. To achieve this the task force under West has to reassemble the capstone which Alexander the Great cut into seven pieces and hid at each of the ancient wonders. All of which brings the international best onto the stage to hunt down the prize. The first, to not do it and suffer the destruction of the planet, the second to give peace on Earth and the third to enable a nation to earn a thousand years of supremacy. It turns out that the Great pyramid once bore a golden capstone with a crystal that diverted the power of the sun and gave three options to humanity. The premise (given just after the first mission is completed) is that we are fast approaching the several thousand year old cycle of the alignment of the Tartarus sunspot and the Earth. Take a deep breath, suspend disbelief, forget quibbling about the overuse of punctuation and cliched one-liners and prepare to be entertained in a manner that no Hollywood blockbuster could currently hope to match. So, we find ourselves sitting back in a comfortable armchair, drink perched on one side having carefully arranged three hours personal time, ready to be taken on the rollercoaster ride that is a Matthew Reilly novel. This creation is able to deflect bullets by emitting a powerful electro-magnetic field. The best of the lot is the `warbler' which is to West as the trusty maghook is to Schofield. Other than Lily and the Wizard - an elderly professor capable of matching the fittest trained soldiers from the `mice' nations (as Reilly puts it several chapters later) - the rest are handpicked warriors bristling with every weapon known the man and with a few others borne from Reilly's imagination. He introduces us to a new character, Australian superhero and all-round good-guy, Jack West Jr., whom we meet on the run with nine other people, one of which is a 10yr old girl, named Lily, (which explains the subsequent names) and the rest are Wizard, Woodsman, Fuzzy, Stretch, Princess Zoe, Pooh Bear, Noddy and Big Ears. Reilly's back and his latest thriller explodes off the page with the force of tornado.
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