The Midas Touch

“A perfect piece of entertainment with characters and a story that never disappoints. Poignant in places, nail-biting in others, the plot is accentuated by a take-no-prisoners attitude, similar to speeding down a slalom course with all its twists and turns. It’s quite a ride.” -Steve Berry New York Times Best-selling authorNational Treasure meets Jack Ryan in this heart-pounding thriller. A maverick puzzle-solving CIA officer. An ancient secret that could obliterate the world order and redraw the balance of power. A worldwide treasure hunt with no rules. Brady Donovan keeps America alive. His day job? CIA Cryptographer—connecting the dots to top-secret international plots before they happen. But when he discovers the savage murder of his mentor . . . everything changes. Donovan is thrust from the safety of his protected CIA office into the real world for the first time, overmatched and unprepared. He has no survival skills—except one: His razor-sharp ability to piece together deadly puzzles from clues that seem to have no connections. Forging a desperate alliance with British hieroglyphics expert Teppy Flynn, they plunge into a mystery that has claimed lives for thousands of years: the relentless quest for the legendary Alchemist Gold Formula— the promise to transform ordinary metal into pure gold. Now, closing in on the ultimate prize, they're trapped in a race against rival governments, deadly mercenaries, private armies and unscrupulous billionaires who will stop at nothing to get it. Only Donovan and Flynn stand between humanity and economic oblivion, unless they can solve the puzzle of the ages first.THE MIDAS TOUCH hurls readers through a gauntlet of relentless danger and spine-tingling suspense across all four corners of the globe. Missing portions of the Rosetta Stone in Egypt. Pirate Jean Lafitte's buried treasures in Texas and the Caribbean. The London Museum’s hidden passageways and antiquities. New Orleans' murder-haunted French Quarter. Napoleon's final island prison where madness still festers. Mountain-sized caves beneath the Louisiana Bayou. And ancient secrets buried with the bones of the dead - leading to the CIA’s most impenetrable classified vaults deep inside Langley.From Oren Aviv & Charles Segars, the creators of the popular NATIONAL TREASURE film series, and award-winning, best-selling international thriller author Gary Grossman. Read more