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Original Title:	The Heretic's Treasure
ISBN:	1847560822 (ISBN13: 9781847560827)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Ben Hope #4

The Heretic's Treasure (Ben Hope #4) Paperback | Pages: 486 pages

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Mariani brings Ben Hope back for his fourth full-length adventure, constantly reinventing this highly energetic protagonist. Having been through a number of professions in his short life, Ben Hope still wants to hang up his adventure goggles in some form. However, in the world of Kidnap & Ransom, there is never a shortage of work. Seeing an opportunity, Hope purchases some land in France and opens up his own training facility. With things running smoothly, Hope receives a call from Colonel Harry Paxton, a former colleague, who has a mission for him; find his son’s murderers. Eminent Egyptologist, Morgan Paxton, has been working to uncover the ‘Akhenaten Project' in Cairo, the most mysterious project of his life. While torn, Hope cannot help but remember the elder Paxton’s sacrifice when he was a young soldier and agrees to investigate. However, Hope is also drawn to Colonel Paxton’s much-younger wife, Zara. The attraction seems mutual and Hope forges into Egypt to find the killers and bring some balance to the Paxton family. What begins as a simple mission of redemption soon turns much darker than expected. A double-cross fuelled with Hope’s thinking with his heart pushes him deeper into the Egypt mystery than he pledged. Hope finds himself bouncing around various geographic locations to follow the trail of the Akhenaten Project, culminating in a showdown with a cutthroat terrorist in war-torn Africa. What follows could significantly change the political climate around the world. Who was Pharaoh Akhenaten and how did his secret leave him branded a heretic by those of his era? Mariani keeps the story fresh and the thrills continuous in this Ben Hope story that will have readers curious until the very end. Recommended to series fans and those who need a summer jolt for their reading lists. Mariani continues to create his Ben Hope character, offering something unique in each of the novels to date. Here, with Hope trying to balance between ‘former warrior’ and ‘fully retired’, Mariani places his protagonist in a spot to explore the teaching role, as if he wanted to pass along his knowledge for the next generation. Of course, that is foiled and keeps him in the game. Interestingly enough, Hope also suffers only briefly with the loss of his wife and turns his eyes (and heart) towards a new interest, though she is surely off limits in the early stages of this book. Mariani continues to portray Hope as a man able to sow many proverbial oats and who has to keep an oak door as the women seek to beat it down. However, this banter between Hope and the lady friends he keeps shows a more tender side to the man who is happy to cut a throat in the line of duty. Turning to the story itself, I found myself, again, less than drawn to the overall idea, though Mariani keeps the reader guessing with all the travel and some of the head butting scenes. One can only hope this lull in the plot does not become a new normal, though with many books yet to go in the series, one can surmise that this is but a brief dial-down. While Egypt has much to offer historically, with scores of mysteries intertwined within its centuries of undiscovered stories, I found this to be less electrifying as I might have liked. Ben Hope has much to offer and the early chapters showed a great deal of intriguing storytelling, but the full-impact story lost me at some points. Again, as mentioned above, there may be a lull here or I might just be a little off my game. Kudos, Mr. Mariani for advancing the Ben Hope character in new directions. There is surely much to be found in this man and his life in the numerous novels to come. Love/hate the review? An ever-growing collection of others appears at: http://pecheyponderings.wordpress.com/

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Title	:	The Heretic's Treasure (Ben Hope #4)
Author	:	Scott Mariani
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 486 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2011 by Not Avail (first published June 25th 2009)
Categories	:	Thriller. Fiction. Adventure. Mystery. Action

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This was another great book in the series and I'm looking forward to reading the rest. What I particularly like about this series is that the books I have read so far are very different in their styles. Often when you read books by a particular author you begin to recognise their style. It's similar when you listen to music by a recording artist you recognise their style if they write or compose their own songs.Scott Mariani writes a good adventure story with the character Ben Hope. I love the

I'm normally a big fan of Scott Mariani and have read a couple of his books before and enjoyed them very much. I'm a fan of the whole 'Dan Brown' ilk of books and can suspend my disbelief as well as anyone but with this book it felt like my disbelief was pushed just that bit too far. I still enjoyed the main character and thought he was well portrayed; complex and intriguing and ultimately a good guy despite the whole killing people thing, but parts of the plot were ridiculous. Particularly some

Trouble always seeks Ben Hope out. From a guy who just wants to get on with his nice little business and forget his past, that isnt always the easiest thing to do.A man who once saved his life and who he holds great respect for asks Ben to find out why his son was murdered and Hey Presto trouble rears its ugly head. He is double-crossed in more ways than one and comes to find that the man who he regarded so highly, is not the guy he thought he was. A pretty face turns his head which throws more

This is the funniest book I've read in quite a while. It's a satire of the thriller genre so comically overblown I had to annoy Jo by reading bits out to her. Cleverly, Mariani employs the tropes while taking the piss out of them so it's also a very entertaining thriller in it's own right. Underlying the chain of preposterous coincidences that constitute the plot is an excellent structure. It opens with an old man ushering the hero with a thousand faces into the world of adventure, builds to

Perfect companion for a vacation . Lost treasures, mystery, terrorist, a lot of bang bang, and a new hero a la Indiana Jones style.

Another great Ben Hope book. A good twist at the end.

Scott Mariani does it again. A fast paced fascinating thrilling ride from the ancient world of Egypt to the present. My only complaint is the women fawning over Ben Hope. Can we please leave out the romance bit? But that ending. That plot twist. Suspected it but still had me stumped.