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A buried artifact. A legendary outlaw. A race for the truth.
When former Navy SEAL turned treasure hunter Dane Maddock uncovers a mysterious artifact hidden among Billy the Kid’s fabled treasure, he and his partner Bones are plunged into a deadly chase across the New Mexico desert.
The disc is unlike anything they've seen before—etched with impossible symbols and pulsing with a strange energy. Their search for answers leads them to Roswell during AlienFest, where the line between conspiracy and truth is thinner than ever.
But powerful enemies are watching.
Pursued by a ruthless black-ops agency, betrayed from within, and racing against a countdown buried in history, Maddock and Bones must unlock the secrets of the “City of the Sky”—a place whispered of in legends and hidden beneath the earth.
The truth is out there… and it’s not waiting.
Indiana Jones meets the X-Files in this breakneck adventure from the bestselling world of Dane Maddock.
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12 primary booksDane Maddock Adventures is a 12-book series with 12 released primary works first released in 2004 with contributions by David Wood and Дейвид Ууд.
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David Needs To Open A Teepublic Store. Y'all Should Help Me Convince Him. :) This was another fun entry in the long and spiraling Dane Maddock saga, but also one that those new to Wood can pick up as their first book and neither have much spoiled nor miss much of anything, as it largely is a fairly solid standalone tale with a couple of links to a larger world - though one of those links in particular does play a larger role in the epilogue than it does in the overall tale here.
Instead what we get here is an adventure thriller based in the American Southwest featuring its most famous of creatures - the Roswell Aliens and the various lore and objective facts that are known about that event all those years ago. As usual, Maddock himself has seen some things, but is still the more down to earth explorer. His partner "Bones" Bonebrake... is the more outlandish believer of many things who also happens to be *very* good at, well, breaking bones when the need arises.
As with most of these tales, there is at least some plausibly achaeology-ish setup, a lot of being chased by people with bad intentions, a few key fights, and (particularly later in these adventures, as this book is), some element of scifi and/ or the supernatural. Though in this case it *does* have a more interesting spin on the concepts than I've seen in other works, and I've read a lot of interesting stuff related to these particular events.
But the reason David needs to create a teepublic store: He has created a symbol for a group - and granted, these people are the antagonist for this novel - that is so badass I actually would consider getting a tattoo of it, and despite having several tattoos, many of them book-inspired, that isn't something I say very often. I would *absolutely* wear this on a shirt in a heartbeat, and I honestly think even just having stuff available with this image alone would have enough sales to at least warrant the effort of creating the shop and making it available.
But y'all need to read this book and leave your own reviews of it, and tell David to create the shop so we can buy the shirts. Maybe if enough people har - I mean, gently ask him - he'll eventually do it just to get us to leave him alone? :D
Very much recommended.
Originally posted at bookanon.com.