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Ship Tycoon
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A new game present by TRADEGAME Lab following Air Tycoon - Ship Tycoon This is a paid version of...

Airport Mania: First Flight HD
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Pack your bags for a trip through the skies in Airport Mania! Travel through 8 amusing airports...

The Stone Monkey (Lincoln Rhyme, #4)
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Recruited to help the FBI and the Immigration and Naturalization Service perform the nearly...

The Raft
Book
Robie is an experienced traveler. She's taken the flight from Honolulu to the Midway Atoll, a group...
The Raft S. A. Bodeen Young Adult Young Adult Fiction Stranded Plane Crash

David McK (3562 KP) rated The Last Odyssey (Sigma Force #15) in Books
Feb 12, 2023
By and large, you know what you're getting with James Rollins Sigma Force novels (of which this is number 15!): a modern-day techno thriller, usually a race against time with dire consequences of failure, and linked to a mystery in the past.
This one is no different.
Having said that, I do have to say that these are also a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine!
This time around, the link to the past is the tale as told in Homer's (not *that* Homer! D'Oh!) Odyssey, when Odysseus and his crew spent years trying to get home again following the fall of Troy. What if the fantastical stories, and his journeys, all had their basis in fact?
Following a discovery of an ancient ship entombed in ice in a glacier in Iceland, and the cargo it carries, this sets the events (and the clock) ticking for this novel: events that sees Commander Grayson Pierce and his now-wife Seichan return from Maternity/Paternity leave in order to help out solving the mystery.
As usual, there's also a traitor or two ...
This one is no different.
Having said that, I do have to say that these are also a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine!
This time around, the link to the past is the tale as told in Homer's (not *that* Homer! D'Oh!) Odyssey, when Odysseus and his crew spent years trying to get home again following the fall of Troy. What if the fantastical stories, and his journeys, all had their basis in fact?
Following a discovery of an ancient ship entombed in ice in a glacier in Iceland, and the cargo it carries, this sets the events (and the clock) ticking for this novel: events that sees Commander Grayson Pierce and his now-wife Seichan return from Maternity/Paternity leave in order to help out solving the mystery.
As usual, there's also a traitor or two ...