Book description
'Greetings from the dead,' declares Maxwell Broadbent in the videotape
he left behind after his mysterious disappearance. A notorious treasure
hunter and tomb robber, Broadbent accumulated over half and a billion
dollars' worth of priceless art, gems, and artefacts before vanishing -
along with his entire collection - from his mansion in New Mexico. At
first, robbery is suspected, but the truth proves far stranger: As a
final challenge to his three sons, Broadbent has buried himself and his
treasure somewhere in the world, hidden away like an ancient Egyptian
pharaoh. If the sons wish to claim their fabulous inheritance, they must
find their father's carefully concealed tomb. The race is on, but the
three brothers are not the only ones competing for the treasure. With
half a billion dollars at stake, as well as an ancient Mayan codex that
may hold cure for cancer and other deadly diseases, others soon join the
hunt and some of them will stop at nothing to claim the grave goods.
Douglas Preston, a regular contributor to The New Yorker, has
worked for the American Museum of Natural History and taught English
at Princeton University. With his frequent collaborator Lincoln Child
he has authored many bestselling thrillers such as Relic, which
became a major Hollywood motion picture.
