The King's Tomb (Joe Hawke Book 10) by Rob Jones

Author:Rob Jones
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2018-07-29T23:00:00+00:00

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With the day long-gone, the exhausted four-strong team sat on the veranda running around the front of a large villa north of Pretoria. Set in the middle of a wildlife sanctuary owned by old friends of Danny Devlin from his South Africa days, they all agreed it was the safest place any of them could be right now.

The brother and sister owners of the property, Isaac and Lily Elsey, were away in France on business, but they had answered Danny’s call for help in a heartbeat and now the place was theirs for as long as they wanted it.

But that wouldn’t be long. Now, they cracked some beers, dressed their wounds and breathed a collective sigh of relief. Lea rubbed her temples and tried to force the stress away, but it wasn’t going anywhere.

In the notes containing Julius’s translation they had found references to an ancient shield that was made to match the sword. The Athanatoi scholar’s deciphering of the symbols on the sword described the shield in intimate detail and both Julius and Ryan had instantly recognized the item in question as being the Shield of Pridwen.

It was a relic from Camelot, much like they believed the Sword of Fire to be and both men knew where it was last seen: in the National Museum of Archaeology in Athens. Ryan was especially pleased.

He’d had time with the sword before when they found it in Wales, but not enough time to make a proper study of the symbols etched into it. This plus Julius’s hard work had yielded a fantastic result and they all felt like they were making real progress. It was a relief to all that the shield was in a museum and not at the end of a week-long treasure hunt.

But not all was great. They might have the information they needed about Athens, but so did Dirk Kruger and his psycho boss Ivan Blankov. It was true they had a good head-start on them, but there was still no sign of their puppet master, the Oracle. Lea felt the ominous signs of a migraine headache creeping around the sides of her skull.

Kim cut the call she was making and slipped her phone in her pocket. “I got some great news, guys – they got Lexi back!”

The relief was massive and they all shared a whoop of joy and a few high-fives on the veranda in the twilight. Lexi Zhang was not the closest member of the team, always keeping her emotional distance, but she was fiercely loyal and had risked her life many times to save them. The thought of her being tortured by the Zodiac assassins had given everyone a few sleepless nights and now it was over.

“Thank God,” Lea said.

Kim frowned.

“What is it?”

“But Alex just told me she was pretty badly messed up.”

“What do you mean?” Ryan asked.

“She didn’t say, but I got the impression they screwed her up pretty bad before Joe and the others got to her.”

Camacho punched the side of the wall.

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