Ayesha Ryder is searching for the lost Ark of the Covenant and has been for a while. So when she is approached by the US Secretary of State to find items that were believed stolen from the White House before the British burned it down, she initially turns her down.
However as her search for the Ark counties she is drawn into the search for the missing American treasure and must find it before a killer who is determined to find it and use it to his advantage. As the search closes in Ayesha and those around her including the British Prime Minister become targets of a determined assassin. Now more lies in the balance of her search than she ever imagined.
Ayesha Ryder is a fascinating character whose past gives her trouble again and again even as she tries to do the right thing. She is intelligent tough and beautiful. Her searches always include history and little tidbits of famous people you can't help but enjoy reading.
Nick Pengelley writes a fast paced and exciting book that is the second in a series with the character Ayesha Ryder. RYDER: AMERICAN TREASURE delivers a great story full of twist and turns that you'll pick up and not put down until the last word.
Fast-paced, edgy, and action-packed, the perfect read for
anyone who loves the novels of Steve Berry or James Rollins,
Ryder: American Treasure marks the return of Ayesha Ryder, a
woman digging into historyβs most dangerous secretsβand
hiding some of her own.
During of the War of 1812, British troops ransacked the
White House and made off with valuables that were never
returned. Two centuries later, a British curator finds a
vital clue to the long-vanished loot. Within hours, the
curator is assassinatedβand Ayesha Ryder, a Palestinian-born
antiquities expert, is expertly framed for his murder.
Who could be behind such a conspiracy? And why do they want
Ryder out of the way? To find out, she picks up a trail
leading from a mysterious nineteenth-century letter to the
upcoming presidential election. As Ryder dodges killers in
the shadow of hidden alliances, sexual blackmail, and
international power plays, she finds that all roads lead to
the Middle East, where a fragile peace agreement threatens
to unravel . . . and another mystery begs to be discovered.
Ryderβs rarefied academic career and her violent past are
about to collide. And her only hope of survival is to
confront a powerful secret agent who has been waiting for
one thing: the chance to kill Ayesha Ryder with his own two
hands.
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