Seven Deadly Wonders (Jack West Jr, #1) in Aussie Readers

Jul 29, 2008 Catsalive rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: amw, 2024, 2006

2024: Like a boys' own adventure, it's very much like reading an action-packed computer game. Lots of running, jumping, killing & surviving; a quest on a massive scale as we tear around the ancient wonders of Egypt with the aim of saving humanity from certain destruction, not so much a result of the natural disaster headed Earthwards, but from their own stupidity, cupidity, rapacity, call it what you will.

I love that it's the big world players that are the bad guys in this, it makes a nice chang 2024: Like a boys' own adventure, it's very much like reading an action-packed computer game. Lots of running, jumping, killing & surviving; a quest on a massive scale as we tear around the ancient wonders of Egypt with the aim of saving humanity from certain destruction, not so much a result of the natural disaster headed Earthwards, but from their own stupidity, cupidity, rapacity, call it what you will.

I love that it's the big world players that are the bad guys in this, it makes a nice change to see Jamaica on the winning team & Australia come up with the prize. I find amusing the equation of Catholic Church, Freemasons & Sun Cult, it has a ring of truth - all that secrecy & mumbo jumbo. Lily's re-naming of her squad & the swear jar is a bit twee, but I suppose she is just a little girl.

Easy-reading, fast-paced, adrenalin-packed: suspend disbelief & enjoy the ride.

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2006: Great action, fast-paced, interesting characters, and a bit of a laugh at the end. For pure entertainment I haven't read a much better. It's made for the big screen but I can't imagine the yanks accepting themselves as one of the bad guys so I guess the hero will be USAn if it ever hits the box office.

blurb:
It is the biggest treasure hunt in history with contesting nations involved in a headlong race to locate the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 4500 years ago, a magnificent golden capstone sat at the peak of the Great Pyramid of Giza. It was a source of immense power, reputedly capable of bestowing upon its holder absolute global power. But then it was divided into seven pieces and hidden, each piece separately, within the seven greatest structures of the age. Now it's 2006 and the coming of a rare solar event means it's time to locate the seven pieces and rebuild the capstone. Everyone wants it - from the most powerful countries on Earth to gangs of terrorists ...and one daring coalition of eight small nations. Led by the mysterious Captain Jack West Jr, this determined group enters a global battlefield filled with booby-trapped mines, crocodile-infested swamps, evil forces and an adventure beyond imagining. ...more

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