Sam Reilly

In the heart of an Atlantic superstorm, the Tahila fights to stay afloat. Amid the chaos, the ship’s collision-avoidance system blares a warning. Radar shows no ship. No signal. No lights. Just a strange silhouette beneath the waves. A searchlight is focussed into the raging sea and the crew spot something impossible: the slanted roof of a house with glass windows and solid walls… adrift in the open ocean more than a thousand miles from land. Lightning flashes – and behind one of the windows, a woman is staring out, her eyes wide with a silent plea.

An unsolved murder. A lost artifact. A secret buried beneath the floodwaters of history… During the catastrophic Dutch flood of 1953 – the Watersnoodramp – more than 1,800 lives were lost to the fury of the North Sea. But amid the devastation, one death went unnoticed... a murder disguised by disaster. Seven decades later, a skeleton is uncovered in the silted remains of a drowned village. Clutched in its grasp lies a mysterious artifact – one that may unlock the location of the mythical Shield of Hercules, a relic of untold power hidden since the ancient world.

A forbidden past. A rising threat. A nation on the brink of isolation… In the 17th century, the Tokugawa Shogunate sealed Japan’s borders from the world–foreigners were banned, Japanese were forbidden to travel, and trade was limited to a single artificial island, Dejima, off the coast of Nagasaki. For over two centuries, the nation remained hidden… until U.S. gunboats forced it open in 1854. Now, in the present day, Sam Reilly and his wife Amira arrive in Nikkō for a quiet escape. It’s their first time in Japan–and they’ve chosen to enjoy a peaceful babymoon in a land steeped in history.

On the wild west coast of Ireland, a neolithic burial chamber is uncovered. Inside, and perfectly preserved, is the image of a fabled Nemean lion and its cub drinking from a bubbling fountain of pure fire. The image matched the one found on an ancient scroll that warned of a Celtic Prophecy. It foretold of an approaching disaster of unimaginable scale hurtling toward the modern world… Sam Reilly needs to solve the Celtic Prophecy and find the fabled Nemean Lions, whose secret may be the only thing that can save his life.