Solomon's Jar
By Alex Archer
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Her search leads her to a confrontation with a London cult driven by visions of a new world order; and a religious zealot fueled by the insatiable desire for glory. Across the sands of the Middle East to the jungles of Brazil, Annja embarks on a relentless chase to stop humanity's most unfathomable secrets from reshaping the modern world.
Alex Archer
As a writer, Jon has published over two dozen novels with major publishers like Kensington's Pinnacle Books, St. Martin's Press, and many more. He is also the author of eleven installments in the internationally bestselling adventure series Rogue Angel (2006-present) with Harlequin's Gold Eagle line. His short fiction story "Prisoner 392" (appeared alongside Stephen King in FROM THE BORDERLANDS, 2004, Warner Books) earned him an Honorable Mention in 2004's Year's Best Fantasy & Horror edited by Ellen Datlow. Jon has also co-authored two non-fiction books: LEARNING LATER, LIVING GREATER with Nancy Merz Nordstrom (2006, Sentient Publications) and THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO ULTIMATE FIGHTING with Rich "Ace" Franklin (2007, Alpha Books/Penguin/Putnam). Jon is perhaps most famous for his Lawson Vampire series of supernatural action novels starring the Fixer Lawson, a jaded anti-hero charged with protecting a race of living vampires from exposure. There are currently six novels (The Fixer, The Invoker, The Destructor, The Syndicate, The Kensei, The Enchanter) two novellas (Slave to Love, The Courier) and five short stories (The Price of a Good Drink, Interlude, Red Tide, Rudolf the Red Nosed Rogue, Enemy Mine) in the series with many more adventures yet to come. Jon's latest novel is the new Shadow Warrior series debuting in September from Baen Books. Book 1, UNDEAD HORDES OF KAN-GUL is due out September 3rd in stores everywhere. Jon also publishes his backlist independently. You can find his ebooks on Amazon: http://bit.ly/jonfmerz Barnes & Noble's Nook store: http://bit.ly/bnjonfmerz and on Kobo: http://bit.ly/kjonfmerz As a producer, Jon has formed New Ronin Entertainment with longtime friend Jaime Hassett to create television and feature film projects in the New England area. Their first project is THE FIXER, a new supernatural action series based on Jon's Lawson Vampire novels. Filming of the pilot begins in 2013. Jon has studied authentic Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu/Ninjutsu for over twenty years under Mark Davis of the Boston Martial Arts Center. He has also trained with senior Bujinkan instructors both in the United States and Japan. During a trip to Japan in February 2003, Jon earned his 5th degree black belt directly from the 34th Grandmaster of Togakure-ryu Ninjutsu, Masaaki Hatsumi. In addition to traditional training, Jon has also taught defensive tactics to a wide range of clients, including civilian crime watch groups, police and EMS first responders, military units, and federal organizations including the US Department of State, the Department of Justice, and the Bureau of Prisons. In his past, Jon served with the United States Air Force, worked for the US government, and handled executive protection for a variety of Fortune 500 clients.
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Reviews for Solomon's Jar
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Annja Creed is an incredible force. Drama and non-stop action. A modern day female Indiana Jones.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5
Ugh! This was awful! Terrible writing, editing or both. No continuity, it jumped from locale to locale & from clue to clue without much if any explanation, it was so hard to folllow. Then bam! Right near the end a tryst without any sexual tension or much of an attraction for the first 3/4 of the book! Really? Such a disappointment after the first book. I'm going to read #3 & the decide whether to finish this series or not. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Annja Creed is an incredible force. Drama and non-stop action. A modern day female Indiana Jones.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The second story in the Rogue Angel series. Annja Creed is trying to find Solomon's Jar before someone else does. Things have conspired to make it appear that she's one of the bad guys however she has to keep hunting the jar to ensure that it doesn't get into the hands of the wrong people. She also discovers some problems with power.I find this series quite readable and great fun but there's nothing resembling deep here.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Archer continues the Rogue Angel series with the stereotypical strong female protagonist and her adventures in archeology. My main memory of this book, 24 hours after finishing it, is that i kept saying to myself 'if Annja is described as "lithe" one more time, i may vomit.'Aside from that, Solomon's Jar is still not as good as Destiny. The scene changes are jarring, Annja vanishes from one continent and appears on another with no explanation of how, why, or when she departed or arrived. Despite calling Roux her mentor, he hardly appears in the book at all. Even the intentionally descriptive paragraphs were overly saturated with adjectives, leaving the remainder simply sodden with them, cluttering the book. The action was more outlandish, and there are only so many times in one book that a reader can willingly let the protagonist act on her possibly divinely inspired 'feelings' and 'insights.'I don't know how Archer will manage to keep the readers from lapsing out of their temporary suspension of disbelief before the end of the third book, and so far this series has at least five books. The topics of good deeds vs. good intentions crops up a few times, and will clearly be a theme through the rest of the series, but that alone can't hold it together.And if Annja is described as 'lithe' as many times in book three as she was in book two, i think i might vomit.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5While less enjoyable than the first book, this book did delve more deeply into the issue of what Annja is and what her powers relate to. The introduction of biblical/Jewish mythology and legend as well as the constant travel sort of numbed the story a bit. I felt a little too bogged down in everything that was going on, and the issue brought up about the incident in Tel Aviv sort of left me with a slightly sour taste in my mouth. I'd like some proof the Annja does believe that good transcendes religion rather than the Christians were right.