Books read this week

The past week, I read four books. One of them, The Eye Of The Tiger by Wilbur Smith, was an interesting story about sunken treasure with an Indian angle. If you recall Indian history, the Mughals were a great dynasty who brought much of India under a single dominion. Hindusthan was a rich and powerful nation in the heydays of the Mughal rule. They had built several architectural wonders and were connoisseurs of art. One Mughal king had a priceless stone, a stone priceless than the Kohinoor. This diamond was embedded in a throne, not the Peacock Throne, but another throne. This throne was guarded with great security. During the Indian Mutiny, a British officer kills the guardians of the throne and parcels it back to England to sell it. But an unexpected storm near South Africa sinks the ship and the throne is lost. The recovery of this throne is the story in short. The another book, The Fifth Profession by David Morrell is about two bodyguards, an American and a Japanese one coming together to defend a client. An interesting thriller from the author of The First Blood, it dwells with the question of duty and honor. It also deals a little in depth with the possiblity of altering human brain. The book had an interesting concept. Every one might have had experienced déjà vu atleast once in thier life. But to experience jamais vu would be torture. “Jamais Vu” is used to describe something the experience of being unfamiliar with a person or situation that is actually very familiar; In this novel, the protaganists sees each other die, but afterwards find that what they was not real, everything they had believed to be true is false. An interesting twisting tale of horror. I also read The Seventh Scroll by Wilbur Smith. This book was conceived as a parallel novel to one of his earlier work, The River God. This is also a treasure hunt, a hunt that takes place in the hearts of the Ethiopian jungle. The treasure is a tomb of a pharoah, Mamose, who lived some two thousand years before Christ. A wonderful novel, blending nature and man in a never-ending struggle, runs to nearly 700 pages. Two archaelogists try to find the treasure under water and underground, escaping death at every turn. On Monday, I read Burnt Sienna by David Morrell. A chilling tale of a manhunt across continents with lots of twists and turn every few pages, the novel is about an ex-military man, who had forsaken violence for art. Chase Malone is a famous artist who is commissioned by an arms dealer to paint his wife. The trouble is Chase like to take orders from no one. He is forced to accept the offer. The face-off between Chase and the arms dealer forms the crux of the novel.