The Hunt for Excalibur

Order of the Black Sun #23

by Preston W. Child, Tasha Danzig

With a terminally ill wife, Glasgow mechanic Court Callany is desperate for money. When an acquaintance from work asks him to help him rob a wealthy antiques collector’s home, he reluctantly agrees. However, the robbery goes wrong and when Court tries to sell his stolen artifacts at a local pawnshop, he unwittingly enters into the underworld of international relic hunting.Prominent historian, Dr. Nina Gould, attends a primary school History Week upon invitation, when a boy brings a suspicious relic to show and tell. Intrigued by it, Nina sends photographs of the ancient artifact to explorer David Purdue for examination. But what neither Nina, nor Purdue know, is that the relic is reputed to be the sheath of the legendary sword of King Arthur – Excalibur.As they investigate the origin of the scabbard with their colleague, investigative journalist Sam Cleave, they realize that they are embroiled in a dangerous network of traitorous people who would stop at nothing to hunt down the mythical sword. To exacerbate things, Nina is abducted and held hostage by a relentless war veteran.While her time runs out, Sam and Purdue have to find Excalibur and trade it for their friend, or else Nina will die. Now, the two men are faced with a conundrum. Will they be able to locate a sword that only exists in fiction and fable? Or does Excalibur actually exist?

236 pages, Paperback

Published December 16, 2017

About the author

Still learning about writing and marketing books. When I'm not writing, I'm usually checking out single malts at The Black Cat, Rose St, Edinburgh. Join me :-)

Reviews

[Annette Mordec]

Quick ending

I'm not sure why the author creates a storyline, characters, all the background, just to end the book as quick as possible. There's so much more to these stories that should be completed, but lately, probably last dozen books in the series end so quick, you need to make sure you haven't missed anything. Disappointing.

[Jackie Hare]

Wooden

I'm afraid that I did not enjoy this book. It needed a good proof reader and read as if it had been written by someone whose first language was not English. It was wooden with poor syntax. Not what I was expecting.

[Malcolm McRae]

Just as good as other books I have read by the same author.

All the books I have read by this author have been really exciting and grips your imagination that has you thinking your are there in the book.

[Harold Flannery]

Good but not as great as others in the series

Just too much ..it's getting too far fetched even for this series..bodies still dropping everywhere..but I always enjoy for the read.

[John Bundstein]

Frankly I was disappointed with this one, its major saving grace is it was short and only a couple if bucks on Amazon Kindle.

[William C McEachern Sr]

spellbinding

I could not put this one down and cannot wait for the next one to catch my amazement and intrigue