Da Vinci Code fits Tomb Raider in the award-winning thriller that #1 NYT author James Rollins called, ‘Full of action and suspense.’

Spain 1057: During a thunderous battle, the first King of Spain wrestles Alexander the Great’s priceless Egyptian tool from invaders, but sees it keeps a terrifying and mysterious power.

One thousand years afterwards, on a hushed, fog-shrouded Napa morning, gunshots and the sound of breaking glass rip through the morning’s silence. Maddy Marshall, an app developer and about VanOps: The Shed Power aikido instructor, and her twin brother, Will, an engineer, quickly run toward the audio. Horrified, they discover a sniper’s bullet offers found its human target.

Before the pool of blood in the living room floor is dry, the twins are sent with an arcane quest to recover Alexander’s ancient weapon. Joined up with by a VanOps covert agent, the rifle’s sights are now arranged on them. Room is normally safe, a wrong move means death, and even a simple telephone call is off limits if they are to survive.

From a medieval Spanish castle, they follow a timeworn trail, starting at a secret warren under the streets of Jerusalem. But if the killer discovers the weapon 1st, it will be utilized to cripple the United Says’ eye-in-the-sky early caution systems, enabling the Russians to swoop in and victimize the vulnerable nation.

Can Maddy learn to wield the energy of the dangerous tool in time to avoid the Russian system? Failure means delicate world tranquility will be permanently shattered…