The Immortality Curse Greig Beck Books
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What would you give for eternal life?
An impossibly old man, a family gruesomely murdered and a woman whose collection of mythological artefacts defies belief Professor Matt Kearns knows they are connected. These ancient clues bring Matt out of his self-imposed solitude to seek the fabled Fountain of Youth.
This brings on a perilous odyssey across deserts, oceans and into the heart of a mountain, Matt must overcome horrifying adversaries, creatures of legend, and also unravel a 5000-year-old mystery that will tear at his very sanity.
In a hidden place, Matt finds that some gifts have a terrible price, and some are not gifts at all, but curses that can last for an eternity.
The Immortality Curse Greig Beck Books
I have really enjoyed the Matt Kearns books and this is now one of my favorites. Matt,the reluctant adventurer,is drawn into a search for the fountain of youth leading him to Canada,Chad and a dangerous and mysterious cave that will change him forever.The finale of this book is breathtaking . The story is filled with danger,deception and thrills. I highly recommend it.
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The Immortality Curse Greig Beck Books Reviews
THE IMMORTALITY CURSE is the third time out for paleolinguist Matt Kearns, first introduced in the opener to the Alex Hunter series. This time out Kearns is enlisted by a very old, very wealthy New York woman to try to find out what happened to her husband who disappeared some 75 years ago on a search for something and who apparently turned up a few days ago in the middle of Canada, seemingly not aged a day, only to rapidly age and be murdered in a most gruesome way by two men in black.
Off we go on a tour of Northern California, New York, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Africa (not to mention other sections taking place in the Vatican and in Turkey, but Matt wasn't in those scenes) in search of, variously, Noah's Ark, the Garden of Eden and the Fountain of Youth. THE IMMORTALITY CURSE is shorter than most of Beck's earlier novels, and a lot sloppier. There are several continuity errors, a bunch of typos and a misspelling here and there. This is much sloppier than the first several of Beck's novels, and continues an unfortunate trend that I have noticed in the last 2 or 3 novels. But I don't think it's going to cost him too many readers, because he still shows the same knack for imaginative plotting, great pacing, and k knowing how to spin a great yarn. I ripped through the book in less than a day, even while stopping frequently to fact-check stuff like a how cool is a Gulfstream 550 and the history of Lake Chad in Africa. One of the things that Beck does well is research and I always learn things from his novels.
Not as good as many of his earlier works, but certainly worth a read for Beck fans or anyone who enjoys fantasy/fiction mixed up with facts, science and mythology.
Recommended.
JM Tepper
I’ve loved every one of Beck’s novels well researched engaging suspenseful adventures with protagonists you want to root for. Plus, he writes the kind of monsters that make your intestines squirm. This year, Macmillan released a third title based on his paleo-linguist character, Professor Matt Kearns. The Immortality Curse opens in true Beck style with the bizarre and gruesome death of Clarence van Helling, an uber-rich explorer missing for decades on the trail of for the legendary Fountain of Youth. Clarence’s widow, Eleanor van Helling, impervious and somewhat imperial, has been faithfully waiting for his return, but now the grande dame won’t rest, enlisting Kearns’ help to discover the truth of what happened her beloved. But other parties intent on obscuring the 5000 year old mystery are also hot on Clarence’s trail. Hero Matt Kearns is on a surfing holiday and doesn’t want a bar of it, but for Eleanor’s impressive collection of historic artefacts, and the attractive FBI officer, Field Agent Rachel Bromilow, both of which have the young professor drooling.
The Immortality Curse is full of all the things we’ve come to love about Beck’s writing breakneck pacing, unspeakable monsters, shaky alliances, hostile terrain, and enough hairpin plot turns to give you whiplash. Unlike his Arcadian series, where the protagonist is enhanced to almost superhuman ability, Kearns is a reluctant hero. An ordinary young man, albeit too smart for his own good, he’s a bit of a contradiction with flailing resolve, slightly compromised morals, and a curiosity that borders on obsessive. The character is sufficiently flawed to be both plausible and likeable, which may explain why many readers are touting this book as one of Beck’s best to date. I expect there will be some who are put off by Beck’s interpretation of the subject matter, the way he has cleverly interwoven biblical references with reasoned conjecture in this frenetic contemporary nail biter, but for pure escapism, there is simply none better.
I am beginning to think that I like Mat better than the original character in BTDI. Mr. Beck noted that Mat is his "Indiana Jones" character. And he, like Indy, is a somewhat "reluctant hero."
This book has it all, the Ark, Noah, looking for a lot of lost things, maybe governments or relgious involvements, maybe not, lost treasures, lost myths, lost maps, lost everything. Who are the "bad guys?" Who are the "good guys"? Are there any bad or good guys.
OK, Mat is asked to help the government, because he reads lost languages and there is a photo recovered from a cell phone that has a bit of a lost language text on it. The FBI is investigating a murder/s, possible terrorism, etc. In addition they are curious that one of the people, "dissolved" before the eyes of the witnesses who were then killed by more people showing up who behead the corpse of the person who died, kill an entire family including a small child and the family dog, and then set themselves on fire. And that is just the first two pages.
So this book starts out fast and then goes really fast. There is only one person whom I really can't stand. And that is Rachel the FBI agent. She has all the warmth of dry ice and she is not nearly as nice. Note to authors, quit making female protagonists tough because they have to "prove" something. Just make them tough without them having to beat the reader over the head with how much tougher they are than the men. I am really sick of that.
This story grabbed me and did not let go until the resolution and I loved the resolution. Though, a few people get killed off, who, I wish, had not died. Alas.
This tome has all the earmarks of a good Beck [though there aren't any bad Beck books] book, it moves at an incredible pace, the good guys, are, sometimes, good. The bad guys are focused, bad and totally without any personal motivation, other than for the guys at the "top."
This a book I will read again.
I have really enjoyed the Matt Kearns books and this is now one of my favorites. Matt,the reluctant adventurer,is drawn into a search for the fountain of youth leading him to Canada,Chad and a dangerous and mysterious cave that will change him forever.
The finale of this book is breathtaking . The story is filled with danger,deception and thrills. I highly recommend it.
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