The Pharaoh Key
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Average rating2.8
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Ratings9
Average rating2.8
Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief, intrepid adventurer--is shocked when his former employer, Eli Glinn, vanishes without a trace, and Glinn's high-tech lab Effective Engineering Solutions shuts down seemingly overnight. Fresh off a diagnosis that gives him only months to live, Crew is contacted by one of his former coworkers at EES, Manuel Garza, who has a bead on one final treasure hinted at in EES's final case, the long-awaited translation of a centuries-old stone tablet of a previously undiscovered civilization: The Phaistos Disc. What lies at the end of the trail will either save Gideon's life--or bring it to a sudden, shocking close. Crew once again faces incredible odds--but as Gideon has proved again and again, there's no such thing as too great a risk when you're living on borrowed time.
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5 primary booksGideon Crew is a 5-book series with 5 primary works first released in 2011 with contributions by Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston.
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Not having read the previous books in the Gideon Crew series, I sometimes felt the emotional impact of the events in the book were a bit understated, although that could well be because I was new to the characters. There was no lack of excitement in the story itself, and although I did guess at some of the “twists” in the narrative before they occurred, that did not diminish the pleasure of reading it.
The phrase, meah, comes to mind. It was a good enough adventure in the end, but if you're a fan of the Gideon Crew books and the Ice Limit releases specifically, this just falls short. The characters are watercolor versions of their prior representations and I was hard pressed to become invested as a reader. It's worth reading. It's just not a book that brings anything of consequence to the series. In that, I am disappointed.
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