Two years before the expedition, while in Iraq, the CIA operative's left arm was amputated at the shoulder. He carries identification: he is Gerald Clark, ex-Special Forces. Now, one of its members staggers into a Christian mission but dies within hours. medical-scientific expedition in the wilderness of the Amazon basin suddenly ceased the 30-man team was declared lost and likely dead. Something wondrous.something terrifying.a mysterious metal known only as el Sangre del Diablo (or Devil's Blood), known only to the most ancient of Incas and a secret sect of Dominican friars who have already killed and died to protect its secrets.įour years ago, all contact with a U.S. A thing created by Man, yet not humanly possible. But where this perilous journey ends-in the cold, shrouded heart of a breathtaking necropolis-something else is waiting for Sam Conklin and his exploratory party. Ingenious traps have been laid to ensnare the careless and unsuspecting, and wealth beyond imagining could be the reward for those with the courage to face the terrible unknown.
While deep in the South American jungle, Conklin's nephew, Sam, stumbles upon a remarkable site nestled between two towering peaks, a place hidden from human eyes for thousands of years. Henry Conklin discovers a 500-year-old mummy that should not be there. Action-adventure novels Excavation (2000) Brooks had been one of the judges for a writing contest at the Maui Writers' Conference in Maui, Hawaii, in which James had entered a manuscript he had recently completed. First novel Ĭzajkowski sold his first novel, Witch Fire (1999), under the pen name James Clemens, through Terry Brooks' publisher. Wells, whose works he used as a springboard for creating similar contemporary novels filled with what he refers to as "the three M's of fiction: magic, mayhem, and monsters". Additionally, he was inspired by Jules Verne and H. Frank Baum's Oz series, Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan novels, and C. Rollins was fascinated by stories of the exploits of Howard Carter and his discovery of the tomb of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh, King Tutankhamun ( King Tut) this true-life tale later inspired Rollins' novel Excavation, in which the main character, archaeologist Henry Conklin, and his nephew Sam discover a lost Inca city in the mountains of the Andean jungle that contains a treasure-and a curse.
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Rollins found the authors of the Doc Savage series inspirational as a youth and acquired an extensive collection of the popular 1930s and 1940s pulp magazine stories. All I do with my veterinary degree now is remove genitalia." Influences
Now, he's flipped that equation: "Once a week I spend about eight hours spaying and neutering trapped feral cats for the Sacramento Council of Cats. I started writing during my lunch hour at the clinic-dogs barking, cats meowing-so now I can write anywhere. In the 10 years I ran my own practice, I had three weeks of vacation total. I couldn't get away, that was the biggest thing. I owned my own practice, had 24 employees. In an Auginterview, he told SLM 's Jeannette Cooperman:įor 20 years my paycheck was coming from my veterinary degree and my writing was my hobby, and I thought it would be really cool to flip that around.
Soon afterward, he moved to Sacramento, California, where he established his veterinary practice, licensed July 24, 1985. He graduated from the University of Missouri in Columbia in 1985 with a doctorate in veterinary medicine (D. His undergraduate work focused on evolutionary biology. He attended Parkway South Junior High School and then graduated from Parkway West High School in Ballwin, Missouri, in 1979. His father worked for Libby's canning plant, his mother was a housewife and mother of seven, and he lived what he likened to a Brady Bunch lifestyle.
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