The Lost Throne: Payne & Jones, Book 4

It's not the objective of the book but the road to getting there that's the fun. Like most of these artifact search books, the achievement of the goal at the end makes the book fall apart. The mystery of the murders and the two different lines of the story finally merging at the end was good. The Spartan stuff was a bit far fetched as was the lost treasure. Perhaps a single artifact would have been more plausible.

The Lost Throne follows two seperate story lines, one a rescue operation/treasure hunt beginning in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the other the investigation of the beheading of several monks in a montaintop monestery in Greece.At times it was difficult to remember the story line of either operation. Also, the author's continual usage of incomplete sentences was annoying to me. The author writes with redundencies--he tells and then he shows.That the damnsel in distress needing rescuing was weak. She could have rescued herself by buying a plane ticket and flying home. I also found the need of the Spartans to murder all people they encountered just so they could locate a book of questionable importance.The ending was blah.I was excited to read this book but found myself hurrying to finish it so I could get onto something else.

Okay, so first and foremost, I am a huge Kuzneski fan. That being said, I didn't care for this book as much as some of his later ones. I'm glad that his character John Payne has developed of the course of his writing to loosen up and not be so uptight and rude as I felt the character was in this book. The story line and everything else I found to be good, but this character kept irking me. I sort of started reading his books in the middle and wanted to catch up and read them all. Perhaps I should leave well enough alone and just keep going from where I'm at.

Kuzneski did much research in order to write this book about Christian abbeys being attacked, monks being assassinated. He tells us about the ancient Spartans, a warrior people who trained their youth to kill. The title and the page turning story made me have an idea about what the Spartans were searching for. In my opinion, the end did not measure up to the build up. Sorry!

I had a hard time putting the book down. Two seemingly separate mysteries that meld together. Really enjoy mysteries with ancient history as a backdrop and treasures to find.

The book or rather two books in one, as two different stories run side by side,ending in one climax. I thought it was well done and well written. It really is a good thriller book, that mystery readers would like.

It was a good read. Full of suspense, fast moving. The characters are interesting. I loved the interaction of them. The story line was exciting.

This was the first book I have read by this author. I found it very enjoyable and will now read his others in this series!

Move over Indiana Jones. Payne and Jones have stolen your crown.A rollercoaster ride through ancient history, with a bit of action thrown in. Treasure, monks and Spartans vie for attention as Payne and Jones rescue a damsel in distress and thwart the murderous attempts of the Spartans. Throw in Nick Dial from Interpol and you have a heady mix which keeps you going to the last word.

Fabulous book 1 of my very favorite books good story line good characters and a bloody good read I love David Jones and Jonathan Payne

With every installment I read I say to myself 'what a story!' Can't wait for the next adventure! With the right mix of history and adventure what can go wrong?!

Great Adventure story

Fast Delivery. Good read. 5*****

good read. Very happy with product and good service and would use supplier again.

Good mix of adventure, historic info and pure escapism. As always lots of tight squeezes and rather a lot of " shooting" the baddies but a good book none the less to lose ones self in.

New author for me - have now worked my way through his catalogue - very very good.

a good read

Good condition

Excellent! Love this series but think this is my favourite in it. Excellent read from start to finish.

Still to read, but previous books have been excellent

good read

recieved in perfect condition on time.

This man's writing just gets better and better. I love Payne and Jones - when is someone going to bring these characters to the big screen!