I really enjoyed The Ark. The characters are well rounded and the plot moved along at a good pace.

A billionaire engineer Sebastian Ulric has discovered a plaque he can use to wipe out humans (except for a few of his followers whom he'll use to rebuild a New World). This plaque came from Noah's Ark, which was finally discovered by an archeologist before being killed by Ulric. Before dying, the archeologist is able to get a message to his daughter Dilara (also an archeologist). Ultimately, Dilara reaches out to Tyler Locke, an engineer whom a colleague pointed her to before he's killed. Together they work to unravel Ulric's plans. ( )

Tres años después de la misteriosa desaparición de su padre, la arqueóloga Dilara Kenner dispone por fin de una pista. Se trata del nombre del ingeniero Tyler Locke y lo ha escuchado de los labios moribundos de un viejo amigo, víctima de un extraño incidente en pleno aeropuerto de Los Ángeles. Cuando el helicóptero en el que se dirige a la plataforma petrolífera de Locke cae en las gélidas aguas de Terranova, Dilara acepta por fin que su vida se encuentra en el punto de mira de un poderoso enemigo. Mientras tanto, los pasajeros de un avión privado parecen haberse desvanecido a 11.000 metros de altura. En su última comunicación, el piloto afirmó entre aullidos de dolor que su cuerpo se estaba derritiendo. Y ése es el destino que espera a gran parte de la humanidad a menos que Dilara y Tyler consigan detener a Sebastian Ulric, un fanático religioso que ha logrado hacerse con un arma antiquísima y con un poder de destrucción bíblico.

There are enough fun, quick moments in this book to make it worth the read, but once I was done, I swore I'd read it before. ( )

3.75 stars, because I thought the book should have ended earlier. Boyd Morrison writes a quality thriller though, closest to Steve Berry, but I liked Morrison's briefer afterword, which was more thoughtful than Berry's fact filled versions. After the death of her explorer father and good friend Sam, archaeologist Dilara Kenner sets off to save the world from disaster, enlisting the help of engineer Tyler Locke on an oil rig off the Canadian coast. Locke undertakes a daring rescue when her helicopter crashes near the rig, and then saves the rig from sabateurs. Meanwhile, a plane with a Hollywood star crashes mysteriously with the people reduced to skeletons. Tyler and Dilara find themselves with a short time period and a billionaire sociopath trying to create a new world order, including unraveling the location of Noah's Ark, her father's lifelong obsession. Dilara is a female version of the venerable Indiana Jones. ( )

Slightly less Indian Jones than I was expecting. Pretty good, even if it was unbelievable. ( )