Michael Karpovage
Jr. Member
Hello All!
I wanted to announce my new mystery thriller novel called Crown of Serpents. As treasure hunters, history researchers, military vets, and genuine adventure seekers I am absolutely sure you will love this book. Described by a newspaper columnist as "Indiana Jones meets The Godfather," this novel has garnered excellent reviews from readers all across the U.S., Canada, and even the U.K. I've also been told it's like "National Treasure meets The Lost Symbol" because of the Freemason and American Revolutionary War history prevalent throughout the book. As one reviewer put it, "it is a suspenseful mystery and high-fueled adventure all wrapped in one."
The backstory of the book was heavily researched and based on a true battlefield ambush in the Revolutionary War between forces led by the ill-fated American Lt. Thomas Boyd and his British foes of Colonel John Butler and Chief Joseph Brant. But make no mistake about it that this is not a historical novel but rather a present day thriller - a great escape in your own backyard that will leave you scratching your head as to what exactly is real and what is fiction.
Here is the official book synopsis:
With the discovery of a campaign journal from an American Revolutionary War officer who fought against the Iroquois Indians, the U.S. Army calls in their top field historian to assess its contents. Jake Tununda, half-Seneca Indian, combat vet, and Freemason is stunned when he gleans from the journal's cryptic Masonic passages clues to location of an ancient shaman's crown once protected by the White Deer Society, a secret cult of his forefathers.
Jake soon realizes why his ancestors' history was best kept buried. And why peaceful, rural central New York's Finger Lakes region can be deadlier than any battlefield he had ever faced.
CROWN OF SERPENTS, a mystery thriller set in the former heartland of the Iroquois Empire, takes Jake on a fast-paced hunt to find the elusive crown – and protect it. He teams up with Rae Hart, an alluring state police investigator, as they snake their way across a politically turbulent landscape marked with murder, arson, lies, and deceit. Deciphering codes, digging up war loot, and fending off the henchmen of billionaire Alex Nero, a ruthless Indian casino magnate, Jake and Rae's survival skills are put to the test. The clues to the crown ultimately lead them deep within sacred Indian caves hidden under the abandoned Seneca Army Depot where the magnitude of the crown's power is revealed.
So, if your metal detector ain't working or if you need a bit of an escape, check out Crown of Serpents at http://www.crownofserpents.com/
FLASH is required for this site. If you don't have Flash on your browser then please visit Amazon.com to find the book.
Additionally, I will be learning more about this incredible TreasureNet website and approaching its members for research and ideas for my next novel to be based here in Georgia. The tentative plot will deal with lost Cherokee Indian gold with a tie in to Civil War history. And maybe I can partner up with someone to go out on a bit of a metal detecting hunt myself!!
Best Regards,
Michael
I wanted to announce my new mystery thriller novel called Crown of Serpents. As treasure hunters, history researchers, military vets, and genuine adventure seekers I am absolutely sure you will love this book. Described by a newspaper columnist as "Indiana Jones meets The Godfather," this novel has garnered excellent reviews from readers all across the U.S., Canada, and even the U.K. I've also been told it's like "National Treasure meets The Lost Symbol" because of the Freemason and American Revolutionary War history prevalent throughout the book. As one reviewer put it, "it is a suspenseful mystery and high-fueled adventure all wrapped in one."
The backstory of the book was heavily researched and based on a true battlefield ambush in the Revolutionary War between forces led by the ill-fated American Lt. Thomas Boyd and his British foes of Colonel John Butler and Chief Joseph Brant. But make no mistake about it that this is not a historical novel but rather a present day thriller - a great escape in your own backyard that will leave you scratching your head as to what exactly is real and what is fiction.
Here is the official book synopsis:
With the discovery of a campaign journal from an American Revolutionary War officer who fought against the Iroquois Indians, the U.S. Army calls in their top field historian to assess its contents. Jake Tununda, half-Seneca Indian, combat vet, and Freemason is stunned when he gleans from the journal's cryptic Masonic passages clues to location of an ancient shaman's crown once protected by the White Deer Society, a secret cult of his forefathers.
Jake soon realizes why his ancestors' history was best kept buried. And why peaceful, rural central New York's Finger Lakes region can be deadlier than any battlefield he had ever faced.
CROWN OF SERPENTS, a mystery thriller set in the former heartland of the Iroquois Empire, takes Jake on a fast-paced hunt to find the elusive crown – and protect it. He teams up with Rae Hart, an alluring state police investigator, as they snake their way across a politically turbulent landscape marked with murder, arson, lies, and deceit. Deciphering codes, digging up war loot, and fending off the henchmen of billionaire Alex Nero, a ruthless Indian casino magnate, Jake and Rae's survival skills are put to the test. The clues to the crown ultimately lead them deep within sacred Indian caves hidden under the abandoned Seneca Army Depot where the magnitude of the crown's power is revealed.
So, if your metal detector ain't working or if you need a bit of an escape, check out Crown of Serpents at http://www.crownofserpents.com/
FLASH is required for this site. If you don't have Flash on your browser then please visit Amazon.com to find the book.Additionally, I will be learning more about this incredible TreasureNet website and approaching its members for research and ideas for my next novel to be based here in Georgia. The tentative plot will deal with lost Cherokee Indian gold with a tie in to Civil War history. And maybe I can partner up with someone to go out on a bit of a metal detecting hunt myself!!
Best Regards,
Michael
