The Secret Library

Author’s Note: this novel has been re-edited and revised, with one scene that some readers found particularly offensive re-written. However, please note this is a gritty thriller aimed at an adult audience, and as such is probably not suitable for readers who are easily offended. First they destroyed his life. Then they snatched his son … Samantha Frewin-Hamilton is on holiday in Tenerife with her two young sons when one of them goes missing: kidnapped. She returns home with a sealed envelope addressed to her husband, a wealthy Cambridge professor, but it doesn’t contain a ransom demand. Drummed out of the SAS before he receives his first posting, James Harris finds a brown envelope on his doormat. Inside the envelope is a graphic image from his past, the same image that led to his dishonourable discharge from the army. When he comes face-to-face with the man guilty of the atrocity depicted, he is shocked to learn he is the father of a young boy â€" a young boy who has been abducted. Reunited by the kidnappers, James and Samantha learn the price for their son’s safe return: find the mythical Metal Library. Spurred on by the desire to rescue his son, James finds himself plunged into a desperate battle for survival, as he is compelled to join an expedition to the jungles of South America, in search of one of the greatest archaeological finds of all time …