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The Gods of Laki

A Thriller

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From the author of Flypaper comes an adventure about mysterious underground volcanic forces and a savage plot to alter the Earth's climate.

A race to unveil the secret of Laki, a volcano on the southern shores of Iceland, pits our heroes - a 16-year-old Viking girl from the tenth century, a German geologist from World War II, and a former Secret Service agent protecting a female volcanologist - against evil forces with a plan to cause an eruption using explosives, altering the global climate through the release and forcing the price of oil to skyrocket.

Everyone and everything on Laki is in danger, including the possibility of ever unraveling the mysteries of the place, as it faces burial beneath a carpet of lava flows. Caught underground by the fracturing physical breakup of Laki, everyone finds themselves ensnared by Laki itself - an unseen, implacable foe that seems everything but a benign presence. Every move they make appears to be guided and controlled by an intelligence that permeates the netherworld.

Only gradually, through all the conflict between the various factions, does everyone begin to realize that it is Laki itself that has always been in charge.

©2015 Chris Angus (P)2015 Audible, Inc. Action & Adventure Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Supernatural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Paranormal Thriller
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This was an action packed story with a good premise but let down by the narrator, who hadn't done enough research on Icelandic pronunciation and syllable stress, but worse than that, seemed only capable of one non-American accent. Thus Icelanders, Germans, Iranians etc were all rendered as Indian. If you are the type who would be put off by this, you might be better off reading the book! I felt the story barrelled along at a good pace throughout, but the resolution wasn't quite as satisfying as I'd hoped, not quite as definitive - but I guess that's gods for you, always the grey areas!

Action packed story with good premise

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