Tasha Danzig has 6 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 1 narrator. The most-rated is Quest for the Holy Grail.
Keepers of the Lost City
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After inheriting a farm on New Zealand’s South Island, Lewis Harding tries his best to keep it running. The financially strapped farmer is forced to forage his new land for implements, eliciting the help of his son Gary. But when they go too close to the entrance of an old deserted gold mine, catastrophe strikes in more ways then one. When Gary’s older brother, Dr. Cecil Harding, shows up at the farm, Nekenhalle, he discovers that his brother and father had gone missing. A spate of livestock mutilations plague the local area, forcing Dr. Harding, a veterinarian, to call in the help of the Australian Wilderness Society. Ironically, this coincides with their current investigation of culling by poison, because, according to Harding, the New Zealand livestock are dying of snakebites. Knowing that New Zealand does not have snakes, the Wilderness Society obtains the help of Scottish explorer David Purdue during a legal debate. Purdue and his associates, journalist Sam Cleave and historian Dr. Nina Gould, accompany the Wildlife Society under the pretense of making a documentary, while actually seeking the location of the Lost City. Similar poisonings in the remains of Nazi soldiers prompted Purdue’s pursuit into the Lost City’s secret, but Nekenhalle has a reputation for evil. Inside the bowels of the farm, the expedition party finds the source of the killings, but at the same time, they venture into a forbidden place they do not know the way out from....
©2018 Preston W. Child (P)2020 Preston W. Child
The Hunt for Excalibur
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With a terminally ill wife, Glasgow mechanic Court Callany is desperate for money. When an acquaintance from work asks him to help him rob a wealthy antiques collector’s home, he reluctantly agrees. However, the robbery goes wrong, and when Court tries to sell his stolen artifacts at a local pawnshop, he unwittingly enters into the underworld of international relic hunting. Prominent historian Dr. Nina Gould attends a primary school history week upon invitation, when a boy brings a suspicious relic to show-and-tell. Intrigued by it, Nina sends photographs of the ancient artifact to explorer David Purdue for examination. But what neither Nina, nor Purdue, knows is that the relic is reputed to be the sheath of the legendary sword of King Arthur - Excalibur. As they investigate the origin of the scabbard with their colleague, investigative journalist Sam Cleave, they realize that they are embroiled in a dangerous network of traitorous people who would stop at nothing to hunt down the mythical sword. To exacerbate things, Nina is abducted and held hostage by a relentless war veteran. While her time runs out, Sam and Purdue have to find Excalibur and trade it for their friend, or else Nina will die. Now, the two men are faced with a conundrum. Will they be able to locate a sword that only exists in fiction and fable? Or does Excalibur actually exist?
©2017 Preston W. Child (P)2020 Preston W. Child
The Einstein Equation
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Belgian physicist Dr. Jacobs learns that an infamous version of the Einstein Equation, thought to have been destroyed, had been discovered by billionaire genius David Purdue. Knowing how deadly the equation’s application would be, he tries to contact Purdue to warn him, but Purdue is frantically busy trying to solve the equation. Little does Purdue know that the Order of the Black Sun is using him to solve the equation for them, to set the ball rolling on a terrible experiment that could cause mass scale destruction. Having worked on a similar experiment for the Order, Jacobs knows the extent of the damage. In a desperate attempt to expose his Black Sun superiors for planning the mass assassination of world leaders, utilizing his project, Dr. Jacobs looks up renowned journalist Sam Cleave and gives him an exclusive interview. When the Order finds out, they kidnap Jacobs’ girlfriend, Olga, to lure him out and keeps her captive on the Valkyrie, a trans-Siberian train heading for a terrible end. In an attempt to free Olga, Jacobs, Nina, and Sam soon realize that they are racing against the genius of Purdue’s inadvertent solution. Once solved, the Einstein Equation will be applied to accelerate the runaway train to a deadly speed, fulfilling a devastating experiment and killing all on board. Now they are aboard the hypersonic threat with no way to stop it, unless they can undo the threat of the Einstein Equation.
©2017 Preston W. Child (P)2020 Preston W. Child
The Lost Crown of the Knights Templar
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While on assignment in England, investigative journalist Sam Cleave helps to avoid a woman being stoned to death in a Muslim residential area, leading to the killing of the men who stoned her. Rescuing the woman, he had no idea what kind of world he had just invaded. Thinking nothing of it, Sam returns to Scotland. Only when the bodies of the men are taken to the local morgue, do the medical examiners realize that the corpses are part of a sect that all share the same sigil tattooed on them. Out of curiosity, they elicit the services of historian Dr. Nina Gould. What Nina discovers about the bodies is mysterious and ancient, but as she calls her local Catholic priest, Father Harper, she is kidnapped by a violent gang of criminals affiliated with the dead men. While billionaire playboy, David Purdue, attends the Bilderberg Conference, he is approached by a beautiful woman who hires him to help her locate an ancient heirloom, a crown once hidden on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Sam soon gets a message from the men who have Nina, and by some coincidental chain of events, realizes that Nina’s inadvertent investigation at the morgue had plummeted her headlong into the underworld of legend. Nina’s kidnappers are looking for the very thing Purdue is trying to locate for the mysterious beauty by his side. When Sam finally gets Purdue to help him find Nina, along with Father Harper, they uncover the horrific truths hidden in the myths of the Templar Knights and their idol, Baphomet, a demonic goat-headed statue. Will they retrieve the lost Crown of the Knights Templar before Nina is executed by her captors? Or are they part of some sinister snare by the Order of the Black Sun, set to eliminate Purdue and his friends from the stage…permanently?
©2018 Preston W. Child (P)2020 Preston W. Child
The Inca Prophecy
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The sea off the coast of Spain holds a secret, buried under centuries of superstition. It has a reputation for being some hellish territory, where crews disappear and ships inexplicably drown in its sublime waters. This is where billionaire explorer David Purdue takes his new yacht out for its maiden voyage. He discovers something under the water that sets into motion an ancient Inca prophecy that would apparently open the hidden city of El Dorado. In Sagunto, Spain, a murder investigation inadvertently leads Captain Pedro Sanchez into the dark underworld of relic hunting, involving an occult practice he knows nothing about. A young boy is kidnapped by even-tempered Madalina Mantara, but her brother insists that she was under the control of her therapist’s hypnotic powers. When Madalina and her brother go missing, Sanchez contacts historian Dr. Nina Gould for advice, and soon they find themselves in pursuit of the Order of the Black Sun’s agents. With the maleficent psychologist at the helm, the boy and the siblings are abducted to South America, while the impending solar eclipse marks the imminent culmination of the Inca prophecy they are all a part of. Now Captain Sanchez teams up with Purdue, journalist Sam Cleave and Dr. Nina Gould in a race to save the child from a terrible fate. In the mountains of Machu Picchu, Peru, they hasten against the solar eclipse and are forced to consider: Do they have free will or are they all part of an ancient prediction?
©2018 Preston W. Child (P)2020 Preston W. Child
Quest for the Holy Grail
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Historian Dr. Nina Gould is visited by her stepbrother, whom she had not seen for ages. With him, he brings a man holding him hostage. Nina has to help them locate a man reputed to own the Holy Grail, or else her stepbrother would be implicated in a serial killing spree. Her research on the Grail reveals that a unit of Allied soldiers, called the Perceval Chapter, were entrusted with the Grail during the North African Campaign in 1944, tasked to keep it out of Nazi hands. Because of this information, she subsequently joins up with investigative journalist Sam Cleave, who has been hired by retired police inspector Peter Carroll to track down the man responsible for the string of child murders. When they compare notes, they uncover a dire secret among the elite soldiers of the Perceval Chapter, and the reason the Holy Grail disappeared without a trace after World War II. When Edinburgh explorer and billionaire David Purdue invites the wrong people to admire his private relic collection, he is attacked and left with a wound that refuses to heal. His condition rapidly deteriorates and eventually, Nina’s skepticism in the existence of holiness is tested when she has to decide if she will take a leap of faith to save the life of her friend by using the Holy Grail’s power.
©2017 Preston William Child (P)2020 Preston William Child