archaelogical thrillers

read another david gibbons tiger warrior like all his work starts with prologue in ancient times and ends in either big explosion or anitclimax -usually anti cilimax where the moden day heroes find what you already know from the historical prologue
the tiger warrior was set along the silk road and ticked all the boxes
the prologue had shades of ben kanes the forgoten legion and valerio massimon manfredi empire of dragons and even included roman trasure seekers and the tomb of the first emperor - reminds me of robert low here
archaelogical thrillers remarkablely similar even the the quest for the same artifact, atlantis, alexanders tomb etc , do the teams of rugged cliched adventurers ever bump into each other "hey that's my lost temple of doom"

re-read mary renault the king must die minoan crete as it appeared in the 1950s
the ghost hunters :concise history history of the society for psychical research
the immortality commision: who could resist a book that includes pharonic tombs, nineteenth seances, stalinist pseudoscience and the immortality promised by present day nanotechnology
-wait i can feel an archaelogical thriller coming on !!