The Ark Reviews Movie Stars Private

After the death of her explorer father and good friend Sam, archaeologist Dilara Kenner sets off to save the world from disaster, enlisting the help of engineer Tyler Locke on an oil rig off the Canadian coast.

Dilara Kenner, an ambitious young archaeologist, must run for her life when an old friend is murdered right in front of her.

Two days later, Locke is consulting on a North Atlantic oil platform when a ferry helicopter carrying Dilara suffers a mechanical failure and goes down next to the rig.

With only minutes before the survivors freeze to death in the frigid waters, the quick-thinking Locke manages to rescue everyone on board, including Dilara.

A second attempt on Dilaras life convinces a skeptical Locke that there is truth to her story.

The Ark Reviews Movie Stars Private

When a movie stars private jet crashes into the Mojave desert, it proves to be another link to the conspiracy.

A group of religious fanatics has recovered a weapon from the Ark that will let them recreate the effects of the biblical flood and mold the remnants of humanity according to their leaders twisted vision.

Now Locke and Dilara have just seven days to find the Ark and the secret hidden inside before it is used to wipe out civilization again.

Breathing his last few breaths, he frantically leaves a cryptic message that will unlock a biblical mystery which he hopes will get back to his loving daughter.

If you are thinking of a book that rhymes with you pinched me nose.wrong.

The prologue also illustrates what is wrong with cookie cutter novels like this.

In looking at the reviews, it is interesting that the authors style is compared by various reviewers to Grisham, Cussler, Brown and practically every other best-selling mainstream writer of this genre.

The hero trips into one action sequence to another with a heroine who sticks to him like Crazy Glue and a sidekick who just happens to be there for comic relief and not much else.

I suspect the writer had movie rights in mind more than book sales when he wrote this.

The Noahs Ark premise started out promising but when the author was borrowing from Dan Brown, he forgot to borrow the ability to involve the reader with a feeling of awe and mystery.

The plot sort of muddles around through more contrived situations but finally develops into a scheme that turns the Ark into.well, I wont indulge in spoilers.

Morrison isnt a bad writer by any means but he does tend to rely on cliched dialogue like, Give me one reason why I shouldnt kill you.

That, stiff characterization, and formula action was rampant throughout and made this novel a bit of a chore to read.

However I must admit the second star keeps wanting to topple over.

I consider these techno thriller to be a bit of a guilty pleasure for me and I often enjoy them as good summer reads, but this one just left me cold.

Boyd Morrison writes a quality thriller though, closest to Steve Berry, but I liked Morrisons briefer afterword, which was more thoughtful than Berrys fact filled versions.