Review: Thriller with a side helping of occult
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 29, 2012
Part Thomas Crown Affair, part Indiana Jones.  Greg Cross is a security consultant by day and a high tech thief by night.  One of his night jobs goes awry when he surprises another thief stealing the ancient cuneiform tablet he was commissioned to spirit away. Badly mauled in the resulting fight, Cross has no memory of getting himself home afterwards.  Even more oddly, his injuries heal by the following morning with no medical intervention.His life becomes even more complicated when two of his legitimate contracts turn out to have connections with the failed heist. He learns the tablet was more than just an sample of ancient text. His mysteriously healed wounds are just one facet of new strengths and powers he has acquired as a result of his encounter with the tablet. He learns more from a mysteriously long lived archaeologist and ultimately finds himself in a show down with an evil left over from the time of ancient Mesopotamia.Note to Christopher Moore fans - this author appears to be a different writer than the Christopher Moore responsible for best sellers such as "Lamb" and "Fluke."  The writing contains some British usages quite unlike the normal work of bestselling Moore, and the style is straight thriller rather than satire.