King Solomon's curse by Andy McDermott

"King Solomon's curse" by  Andy McDermott -  Very lengthy

This  book is published by  Headline in 2017 and has 560 pages. 

Subsequent to the find of The arc of covenant, two books ago, a joint Israeli - Jordanian expedition along with a TV crew led by Nina Wilde (Yes, nowadays she is doing films and books) opens first temple of Solomon. There they find a scaled model of Zhakana, city of the damned. Another expedition is hastily put together to the jungles of eastern part of Democratic Republic of Congo (Former Zaire) and Eddy joins in. Soon danger finds its way.

Do they find Zhakana? What is it? Where is  the mother of Shamir? What is the danger? Which enemy from past will raise it's head?

The book is divided into two parts. One is the story in Middle East and DRC. The discovery of Zhakana, the palace without entrance and Shamir. Second part is the attack on UK parliament. Since the two sections are two different stories, it's not a cohesive book. The two stories are lengthy thereby making this book too lengthy. Towards the end, I went through motions waiting for the book to finish. 

A different angle is that MI6 is shown as active post Brexit and looking for mineral resources. There is a negative element within MI6 that claims to do things in the interest of nation. This puts Eddy in quandary. Patriotism Vs doing the right thing. 

As usual the book has awesome and awful jokes of Eddy, genius of Nina, action, a lot of violence, many deaths, booby traps set thousands of years ago that still work, discovery of something that defies logic, validation of a legend etc.

This book is neither as exciting nor as interesting as others. But it has as much violence and deaths in it. 

Give it a miss. 

Why did I read this book?  Andy McDermott. 

What I didn't like? Length. 

What did I like? Concept of Shamir. 

 Read, if you have read the series.