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The Sinai Secret (Lang Reilly Thrillers)

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The president of the United States is awakened in the middle of the night to meet with his top security advisors in the bunker because Iran fired nuclear missiles at Israel. However, as the missiles seemingly just vanish into thin air, the Israeli President calls his American counterpart to tell him not to worry and go back to sleep as he has no need to retaliate. The US president and his staff struggle with what happened.

Meanwhile Dutch scientist Dr. Yadish is visiting Bruges, Belgium when he is murdered just before another scientist Dr. Lewis is killed in Atlanta. The two have in common research into alternatives to fossil fuel funded by a foundation run by Lang Reilly. Trying to understand what is going on, Lang flies charter to Amsterdam, but is cleverly abducted at the airport. He escapes even as his kidnappers try to kill him. He continues to investigate with clues taking him to Tel Aviv as he finds another link involving a biblical era parchment that has people willing to kill to hide what has been unearthed.

The third Lang Reilly international thriller (see THE PEGASUS SECRET and THE JULIAN SECRET) is an action-packed tale that hooks readers from the moment the Americans realize the Israelis have some secret weapon that they imply comes from God. Although Reilly is too good at Houdini like escapes although they are exhilaratingly entertaining, readers will admire his dedication as he risks his life to uncover the truth and to prevent anymore of his grant scientists from being murdered. Thriller fans will appreciate Greg Loomis as it is no secret that he provides breathtaking novels.

Harriet Klausner

I will simply say that anyone who is a fan of Gregg Loomis, and there are many out there, this will not disappoint. This is quite possibly one of, if not, the best he has produced to date. If you are a fan of the whole "secret knowledge/lost wisdom/arcane knowledge tale" ala Dan Brown/Steve Berry/James Rollins/Matthew Reilly...then this book is definately up your alley...Gregg Loomis would fit right in there with these guys, and I highly recommend this and all of his books.

I picked up this book after finishing "Pegasus Secret" and "Gates of Hades", hoping to discover another thriller that would be just as entertaining and exciting as its predecessors. Well, that's exactly what I got with "Sinai Secret"! Not only does the story showcase the author's intellect, but it also takes you, with many twists and turns, on an action-packed ride. Like all of the other Loomis books, this is a book I would recommend to all.

The star of this Gregg Loomis book is once again Lang Reilly. He still
heads up the foundation. He is a noted attorney in Atlanta, Georgia who
is defending the Mayor of Atlanta on corruption charges. The story begins when a scientest is murdered in Amsterdam. Then a scientest is murdered
in Atlanta anf his records journal is stolen. Both of these scientists work for the foundation. They are researching fossil fuels alternatives.
While at lunch someone takes a shot at Reilly. Reilly begins an investigation of the situation. He travels to Brussels,Cairo,Vienna, and
Tel Aviv. He discovers that an ancient parchment has been unearthed. He
discovers that a powerful group named Essenes is willing to commit murder
to keep this process a secret. This book is action packed and does not
have many halts in the action. Be sure to read this book.

Loomis just gets better and better! Our friend Lang Reilly returns in this book with his keen intellect and biting wit. He is joined by his good friend Father Francis who provides ongoing reality checks for Lang. The story takes us on a fast track, globe hopping journey to places and possibilities that only a master story teller could dream of. Loomis' talent in combining the mysteries of antiquity with contemporary reality makes him one of the best authors in this genre. Loomis' recipe is filled with the factual ingredients of historic events, locations and todays scientific understanding which he combines to cook up excitement and intrigue that leaves us wondering if Lang is his alter ego. Highly recommended as a beach book for this season but you won't want to wait to get to the beach to read it.The Julian Secret

Loomis has crafted a good religious-secret-conspiracy-thriller. Over the top like most of these books. Really, who is involved in this many shoot-outs let alone survives them all? The "secrets" about the ark and who Moses might have been as far as Egyptian history is concerned aren't really all that secret to those who study such things. They are known theories, if not somewhat fantastic (especially concerning the ark). These authors are mining every fringe or alternate theory they can find for these books. But these are better than most, though skeptics won't like the fact that Moses was a real person. Loomis does better than most on the religious details, maybe because he doesn't overdo it and pretend he's a theologian. He's trying to write an entertaining book. He does fall for the Enlightenment revision that claims Western Civ wouldn't have come out of the "Dark Ages" without Muslim knowledge. Not quite. The Dark Ages weren't quite as dark as some may think: see The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success. For more on the Ark, see Searching for the Ark of the Covenant: Latest Discoveries and Research. Will try some more of Loomis' books.

Loomis has created another good religious conspiracy thriller featuring Langford Reilly. After two scientists connected to his foundation are murdered, one in Atlanta the other in Belgium, Reilly himself becomes a target. To stay alive and prevent other murders he must find how who is trying to kill him and why.

This is the first book by Gregg Loomis that I've read and I discovered that the protagonist, Lang Reilly, had featured in some of his previous works as well. However, I was not left in the dark about how Reilly's previous escapades influenced what happened to him in this tale, as it was expertly woven into the storyline without interrupting any events.

Someone in Reilly's research organization discovered an old parchment that certain people are prepared to kill for, and they do too. Soon, they are following Reilly and are trying their utmost to do him in, but he is always one step ahead of the antagonists. Reilly leaves a trail of action thrills as he tries to get to the bottom of this.

Gregg Loomis interlaces the suspenseful action with plenty of international settings, ancient mysteries, science, discoveries and even a bit of romance. Reading this book was an enjoyable experience, and the only problem I had was that I had read a thriller by another author just before this book, that had used some of the same science and ancient mysteries (a lot of which is public knowledge, you can Google the stuff), therefore I could anticipate certain events in the story. That said; it is not Gregg Loomis' fault that I read the other book just prior his novel - I certainly look forward to read more of his work.

Continuing my summer theme of reading thrillers set in the Middle East, I read this book from an Amazon recommendation on my Kindle.

Brutal murders are popping up all over the world that have a single common factor: the people killed were doing research for Lang Reilly's foundation.

Usually in books like this, there is little character development but this book really gives a strong sense of what makes Lang Reilly tick.

Recommended for conspiracist readers. I do wish Amazon would show which books were writtine in what order from authors, I would like to read more of his work but already 3 books ahead with this one and I dont like reading about characters and events that I already have an understanding with.