Ian Dee

The Curtana Key Ian Dee

Publisher Marketing: This is a fast moving and exciting new thriller that blends ancient history with right up to date suspense. A relic from the past haunts Adam Gunn as he tries to solve this first mystery in the Curtana series of new novels. Prologue Having survived the horrors of Helmand, Major Adam Gunn VC, resigned from the Army and returned home to Scotland to recover from his wounds. Hoping for a quiet and peaceful retirement, he planned to spend his time playing golf and adjusting to civilian life, but that dream was shattered when his past caught up with him. As his grandfather, John Gunn, lay dying in hospital, Adam began to unravel his mysterious and dangerous past. The old man had left him a letter, and as Adam read it, he began a journey into the distant past when he discovered that an ancient sword, a Curtana, had cast its shadow over his family for centuries. From that chance discovery in a hidden tomb in Kinlochy, to a murderous climax in a cold war bunker in Wales, Adam fights to save himself and Lucy, the beautiful young reporter who inadvertently photographed the key to the discovery. He is up against Lord Anthony Faulkner, a ruthless oil baron with links to organised crime and who has a fanatical interest in ancient Egypt. In his attempts to find the Curtana, he launches increasingly desperate and violent attempts to force Adam to tell him the secret of the location of what he believes is a clue to the location of the lost tomb of Imhotep. Only when Adam begins to unravel the many tentacles of Faulkner's criminal activities and his plans to use Polygon, an international drugs syndicate that he controls, to dominate the UK drugs market, does he begin to find a way to stop him and in the process, discover the truth behind the mystery of the lost tomb of Imhotep.