VanOps: The Lost Power Audiobook (Free)

Da Vinci Code meets Tomb Raider in the award-winning thriller that #1 NYT author Wayne Rollins called, ‘Full of action and suspense.’

Spain 1057: Throughout a thunderous fight, the first King of Spain wrestles Alexander the Great’s priceless Egyptian tool from invaders, but finds it holds a terrifying and mysterious power.

One thousand years later, on the hushed, fog-shrouded Napa morning, gunshots and the sound of breaking cup rip through the morning’s silence. Maddy Marshall, an app designer and about VanOps: The Shed Power aikido trainer, and her twin sibling, Will, an engineer, quickly work toward the audio. Horrified, they discover a sniper’s bullet has found its human being target.

Before the pool of blood within the living room floor is dry, the twins are sent with an arcane quest to recuperate Alexander’s ancient weapon. Joined up with with a VanOps covert agent, the rifle’s sights are now arranged on them. Room is normally safe, an incorrect move means loss of life, and even a simple telephone call is off limits if they’re to survive.

From a medieval Spanish castle, they follow a timeworn trail, starting at a secret warren beneath the streets of Jerusalem. But if the killer finds the weapon first, it’ll be used to cripple the United Areas’ eye-in-the-sky early warning systems, allowing the Russians to swoop in and prey on the vulnerable country.

Can Maddy figure out how to wield the energy of the dangerous weapon in time to avoid the Russian plan? Failure means fragile world peacefulness will be permanently shattered…