Matthew Reilly - Seven Deadly Wonders (2005)
Reviewed by David J. Montgomery
Matthew Reilly's Seven Deadly Wonders is a work of sheer exhilaration, a rousing adventure about the quest to recover the golden capstone that once sat atop the Great Pyramid of Giza before disappearing in antiquity. If the capstone can be found, great power -- or great destruction -- will be realized by whoever accomplishes it.
Here's the catch: the capstone was divided into seven pieces by Alexander the Great and hidden within the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, only one of which (the pyramid itself) survives to the modern day.
It is the mission of eight soldiers from around the world, plus one little girl, to retrieve the pieces of the capstone and reassemble it atop the Great Pyramid. If they fail, the world as we know it will probably be destroyed.
Seven Deadly Wonders is wholly implausible, filled with cartoonish heroes and ludicrous villains, but it is also as exciting and entertaining a story as you're likely to read.
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