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"391 AD:
The Great Library of Alexandria is destroyed, along with its priceless collections of artworks, maps, records and day to day living. But not all is destroyed. The cream of the crop is secretly taken away by Junius Venator. He sails to a far distant land, to hide the treasures until a day when they can be safe...
1991 AD:
A United Nations Chartered flight is hijacked with the Secrectary-General, Hala Kamil, on board. It crashes in an icey fjord in Greenland, and all are killed but 3. The Secretary-General and two flight attendants. Dirk Pitt, Special Projects Director of NUMA, who is in the area looking for a lost soviet submarine, rescues the three with the aid of some other NUMA people including Al Giordino, Assitant Projects Director and sharer in many of his crazy adventures.
Meanwhile:
Nearby, a team of archeologist excavating a Greenland hunter village occupied between 200 and 400 AD. They find a Roman coin from the era, and find it hard to beleive that Romans did indeed cross the oceans to America and Greenland.
The rest of the book is a story of a family looking to take over the Third World Countries, a search for the long lost treasures of the Libray of Alexandria, rescuing two presidents, a Secretary-General and a highly respected senator. "
Melissa Nicholls, Resident Scholar
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Our unique search engine provides a wealth of detail about books by breaking them down into many different literary elements, all of which are searchable (click here).
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20%
Tone of story
- suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
Time/era of story:
- 1980's-1999
Exploring into the wild
Yes
Plotlets:
- searching for treasure/artifacts
Kid or adult book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Terrain
- Ice
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- explorer
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How much violence does he/she use?
- just the right amount
Ethnicity/Race
- White/American
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Main Adversary
Identity:
- an organization
Age:
- long-lived adults
Profession/status:
- mastermind
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
- eccentric
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a moderate amount
Motive of antagonist
- power
The antagonists are:
- lawyer creatures
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Setting
United States
Yes
Ice Caps/Sea?
Yes
Where?
- Ocean
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Style
Part of a series?
Yes
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gorey descriptions deaths/dead bodies
How many deaths?
- hundreds or more
Sex
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- descript of kissing
A lot of techno jargon?
Yes
Kind of jargon?
- archaeology
Unusual forms of death
- frozen
Unusual form of death?
Yes
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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