The Lost Kingdom (Matt Drake Book 10) by Leadbeater David

Author:Leadbeater, David [Leadbeater, David]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-05-17T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY TWO

Hayden Jaye stared into the heart of chaos, wondering how to make sense of all the evidence scattered around her. Never in her life had she known so many clues to exist that led nowhere. First—the Lost Kingdom. It was out there somewhere, probably submerged between China and Taiwan, though the jury was still out on that one—their language translator, David Daccus, still engrossed in his thankless task of deciphering the symbols and characters nobody had ever managed to decode in all of human history—those found on the Niven Tablets.

Or had they?

The USS Queenfish was looking more and more like it might have been an exploration vessel, and had been ordered to sink the Awa Maru to conceal its real intentions in the South China Sea. Such an appalling tragedy. Either way, it had helped spirit away a fortune in glittering treasure and an ancient, priceless one—the Peking Man. And now Dudley, his crazy crew and the Pythians possessed the old Chinese treasure and a potential map to an even older and more controversial one.

The lost kingdom of Mu. It would be a find beyond belief, she reasoned, but also an enormous bone of contention between China and Taiwan. As if they didn’t have enough already.

Their curator back at the Steel Mountain facility was busy checking for an old translation of the Niven Tablets, but had come up with nothing so far. The physical tablets had been saved by Hayden and her team, but Dudley still escaped with the photographs. Hopefully it would take the Pythians time to put so many pictures together, but her gut and Karin’s knowledge of cutting edge technology, told her otherwise.

“Seconds,” the Blake woman told her. “Once they get the photos loaded onto the right machine it will render them in seconds.”

As time marched on she decided to take a break and call Matt Drake. It would be early morning for him on the night Chika was due to infiltrate the Yakuza. She paused with her finger hovering over the button. Should she risk the call? The team could be in the middle of something finicky.

What the hell . . . Mai once made a call that saved Smyth’s life!

Fortunately, the call was answered immediately. “Yep?”

“Matt? Can you talk?”

“Aye, could do with the break actually. Things have gone right to shit here.”

Tell me about it, Hayden thought. She sighed aloud. “What’s happening over there?”

Drake ran her through the high- and lowlights. Hayden listened then poured herself a black coffee. “Quite a dilemma. Remember, Dahl and the others are still likely to get the job done. Mai may be down, but never count her out. My issue would be with Chika and Yorgi and the length of this so-called trial. Can you get another night out of it?”

Drake said he didn’t know. Hayden caught the edgy tone and decided to change the subject a little. “Bringing you up to speed,” she said. “The Pythians have the fossil. Dudley’s still on the loose with help from his old gang.

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