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Ryder: American Treasure

Ryder: American Treasure, February 2015
Ayesha Ryder #2
by Nick Pengelley

Random House
Featuring: Ayesha Ryder
240 pages
ISBN: 0553393847
EAN: 9780553393842
Kindle: B00M60RKYG
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"Ayesha Ryder is looking for a missing American treasure and it could cost her, her life"

Fresh Fiction Review

Ryder: American Treasure
Nick Pengelley

Reviewed by Shellie Surles
Posted January 11, 2015

Thriller

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.

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SUMMARY

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 history’s most dangerous secrets—and 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 assassinated—and 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. Ryder’s 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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