Just launched! 12.21.12 by Killian McRae
The only way to save the future is to decode the past. The only way to decode the past is to save the future.
Archaeologist Sheppard Smyth has staked his career and the honorable memory of his wife and partner on proving his widely panned theory: Cleopatra VII, the last sovereign pharaoh of Egypt, was not a victim of suicide as history suggests, but of a well-concealed murder.
When a statue of the doomed Queen is unearthed in a pre-Columbian excavation site in Mexico, Shep rushes to investigate and, hopefully, find the proof that has evaded him for so long. The statue, however, is only the first clue suggesting a mysterious connection between Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica, and possibly – beyond.
Suddenly thrust into the heated rivalry between sexy and enigmatic antiquities thief Victoria Kent and the infamous Russian mafioso Dmitri Kronastia, Shep finds himself a common pawn played by forces working to see out a quest older than the pyramids and cloaked in the Mayan Doomsday prophecy of 12.21.12.
August 22nd, 2012 at 2:29 pm
Well done! Five stars! Professionally read with a lot of entertaining current cultural references. Enjoying it a lot.
August 28th, 2012 at 12:58 pm
Really enjoyed both the reading and the writing. Great work. A few editorial oddities but not sure if they are in the writing or in the reading (something like inhuman instead of inhumane). Also some things may be intentional misuse as a joke – hard to get the wink, wink over audio recording so just double check it with an independent editor. Bottom line – very nice work. Here’s wishing you a nice fat publishing contract.
September 8th, 2012 at 1:34 pm
Fritz: Many thanks!
Barry: Also many thanks! This book is already in print. Has been for neary two years, and after this winter, it’s passe. Hence, it’s about at the end of its life. (And yes, I like to play with words.
“Inhuman” was used there intentionally.)
October 11th, 2012 at 1:22 am
I really loved the way you tied the Egyptian Pantheon with the Olmeca/Mayan culture.
Overall this audiobook was the best thing to listen on my long commute to and from work.
I wouldn’t be surprise if this story got turned into a mini series or TV/Web movie.
October 19th, 2012 at 4:39 am
I appreciate that, El Cas. It will be passe in another two months, but I’m happy to have made your commute a little more endurable.