A vanished relic. A deadly prize.The half-mad explorer Dante Caruso swears he’s found a fabled Russian relic called the Amber Room, and he’s attracting the wrong kind of attention. A ruthless team of Ukrainian relic hunters called R24 has kidnapped him and his family; they want to know where the Amber Room is—and they’ll spill blood to find it.Nobody knows treasure hunting like Guy Bodie and his … like Guy Bodie and his crew. But abduction is the last thing they expect. The R24 forces Guy, his treasure hunters, and Caruso at gunpoint to traverse the vast, unforgiving Tatra Mountains and find the Amber Room. If they fail, the R24 will end them. And if they run, the hunters will become the hunted.
Armed only with Caruso’s dubious instructions, Guy and his crew must find the Amber Room at all costs. Will they solve the deadly mystery of this long-lost relic, or will they die trying?
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Third book in the Relic Hunters series. After the 2nd book went a bit heavy with the constant physical thrashings this entry was way more enjoyable for me. More in the vein of a true relic searching, follow the clues type tale with more threats of violence than continuous assaults. Just works better that way. Once again the team is off on adventure to uncover a long lost treasure, this one from WWII nazi pillaging. However, they are not doing it voluntarily as the team has been kidnapped into finding the loot by a gang of similar, but brutal relic hunters. Tag along through hard to travers, rugged terrain led by the man who stumbled across the long fabled “Amber Room” stashed away by the Germans during the imminent defeat at the end of WWII. Problem is our guide is in the early to middling stages of dementia and has a wee bit of troubled remembering all the clues he followed to find said stash. All well done I believe and an entertaining romp with our cast of relic finders, Recommended.
There are a lot of improbabilities in this story but it’s an entertaining read. Some of the characters have a somewhat questionable moral compass, which made me uncomfortable. Having seen the restored Amber Room, our guide pointed out that the panels of the stolen one would have been very soot stained from hundreds of years of candle smoke and other pollutants. Hence the actual panels would not be quite as spectacular as the book suggests. Good book for a plane ride.
The existence of the Russian Amber Room, it’s theft from the Palace by Germany’s Nazi Regime and its subsequent disappearance is well known to history, as is the worldwide looting of national treasures from other countries, during the last War years under Adolf Hitler.In The Amber Secret, book 3 in David Leadbeater’s The Relic Hunters Series, MC Guy Brodie, a treasure hunter working for the CIA has a team of ex-veterans and others with ‘particular’ skills are contacted by a dementia-struck explorer who claims to have first-hand knowledge of the Room’s whereabouts – if he can only remember where it is and what clues he left himself as an aide-memoire.Naturally, no good adventure would be complete without a rival gang of ruthless mercenaries, determined to take advantage of Dante’s knowledge and his new associates’ assistance in locating the priceless treasure and take his wife and child hostage against his co-operation. Who will win the prize that so many covet?Get your copy of The Amber Secret (The Relic Hunters Book 3) by David Leadbeater to find out – it’s sure to give you a real taste for treasure hunting – in print!
The Amber Secret took me on high-altitude adventure that tested the character’s nerves but mine as well. I was frantic in places because I didn’t want anything to happen to Guy Bodie and his team.
After all, this is book three and I’ve invested so much emotion into watching these characters grow from international art thieves into wonderful treasure hunters.
Guy and the gang are back for mayhem! They are still reeling from the loss of one of their own but they have to move on, their CIA Masters won’t let them mourn for ever. They now have 2 enemies after them. The Bratva want them dead for stealing an artifact revered by their recently deceased head. The other group want the items as a means to an end – Getting Guy and his team to pull of an impossible mission of their own – finding the Amber Room!
Going off the seriously addled recollection of the eccentric and mentally ill Dante Caruso, Guy and the gang have to piece together the trail leading to the fabled Amber Room. But can they find it and keep all of the team alive at the same time?
The Ukrainian relic hunters, R24, are bloodthirsty to say the least! I feel so sorry for Dante. He knows what he has discovered but his illness just robs him of all cognisant thought. I have finally got into the rhythm of these books, which are a bit like Matthew Reilly’s books, they read like a movie!
Lots going on to keep you intersted and more flashes of the “forever gang” – I’m really hoping that the team either find them or they come across them during their “jobs”! Great book!