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by Gary Grossman (Author), Oren Aviv (Author), Charles Segars (Author)
THE MIDAS TOUCH A new novel by GARY GROSSMAN, CHARLES SEGARS, OREN AVIV
National Treasure meets Jack Ryan in this heart-pounding thriller. A maverick puzzle-solving CIA officer. An ancient secret that could obliterate the world order and redraw the balance of power. A worldwide treasure hunt with no rules.
Brady Donovan keeps America alive. His day job? CIA Cryptographer--connecting the dots to top-secret international plots before they happen. But when he discovers the savage murder of his mentor . . . everything changes. Donovan is thrust from the safety of his protected CIA office into the real world for the first time, overmatched and unprepared. He has no survival skills--except one: His razor-sharp ability to piece together deadly puzzles from clues that seem to have no connections. Forging a desperate alliance with British hieroglyphics expert Teppy Flynn, they plunge into a mystery that has claimed lives for thousands of years: the relentless quest for the legendary Alchemist Gold Formula-- the promise to transform ordinary metal into pure gold. Now, closing in on the ultimate prize, they're trapped in a race against rival governments, deadly mercenaries, private armies and unscrupulous billionaires who will stop at nothing to get it. Only Donovan and Flynn stand between humanity and economic oblivion, unless they can solve the puzzle of the ages first.
THE MIDAS TOUCH hurls readers through a gauntlet of relentless danger and spine-tingling suspense across all four corners of the globe. Missing portions of the Rosetta Stone in Egypt. Pirate Jean Lafitte's buried treasures in Texas and the Caribbean. The London Museum's hidden passageways and antiquities. New Orleans' murder-haunted French Quarter. Napoleon's final island prison where madness still festers. Mountain-sized caves beneath the Louisiana Bayou. And ancient secrets buried with the bones of the dead - leading to the CIA's most impenetrable classified vaults deep inside Langley.
From Oren Aviv & Charles Segars, the creators of the popular NATIONAL TREASURE film series, and award-winning, best-selling international thriller author Gary Grossman.
Author Biography
GARY GROSSMAN is a print and television journalist, a multiple Emmy-winning television
producer, and an acclaimed novelist. He has contributed to The New York Times and The Boston
Globe and was a columnist for the Boston Herald American. Grossman covered presidential
campaigns for WBZ-TV in Boston and was a prime-time television series producer for NBC News.
He has produced more than 10,000 television episodes and specials for networks including NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, CNN, History, A&E, Food Network, HGTV, Discovery, and National Geographic.
His first novel, Executive Actions, propelled him into the world of geopolitical thrillers. Executive Treason, Executive Command, and Executive Force followed. Grossman's other novels include the international-award-winning Old Earth, a geological thriller that spans all of time; Red Hotel; Red Deception; Red Chaos; and Red Ultimatum, a series written with international business executive and counterintelligence expert Ed Fuller. In addition, he has authored two highly regarded books on television history: Saturday Morning TV: Thirty Years of the Shows You Waited All Week to Watch and Superman: Serial to Cereal.
OREN AVIV is an award-winning entertainment industry leader, producer, marketer, and writer with over thirty years of experience in both marketing and production at Walt Disney Studios, Twentieth Century Fox, and STX Films. As president of production and chief creative officer at Walt Disney Studios, Aviv cocreated Disney's National Treasure films, which have grossed over $800 million worldwide. Aviv is also responsible for putting into production a multitude of box office hits, including the Sandra Bullock/Ryan Reynolds romcom The Proposal, Tim Burton's billion-dollar-grossing Alice in Wonderland, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, among many others.
CHARLES SEGARS is a media and technology executive with over thirty years of experience in content development and production at Viacom, Walt Disney Television, CBS, and DreamWorks Studios. Throughout his career, Segars oversaw a large slate of film and television projects, including some of prime-time television's most watched live-event specials and late-night talk shows. Segars is also credited with cocreating and executive producing the National Treasure film franchise, which has grossed over $800 million worldwide. Currently, Segars enjoys a dual role as a partner in Co-Media, helping oversee and operate a variety of subscription content services and media investments.
