When archaeologist Annja Creed reluctantly agrees to help an old colleague on a dig in Antarctica, she wonders what he’s gotten her into. It turns out that her former associate has found a necklace made of an unknown metal depicting three snakes. He claims it’s over forty thousand years olds and that it may not have earthly origins. As the pair conduct their research, Annja soon realizes she has more to worry about than being caught in snowslides. Because everyone is hiding somethings from her friend, to the U.S. military personnel guarding the site.
With no one to trust and someone out to kill her, Annja has nowhere to turn. And everything to lose. I'm mostly through Polar Quest and already have the next book in my possession but I'm saddened by the decline of the quality of the writing the past couple books and not quite sure who's writing Annja because this isn't the Annja from the early books. I understand the whole team of writers idea, being a writer myself, but shouldn't everyone involved have the same basic concept in mind for particular recurring characters? The recent Annja is a bit of a dingbat, you'd think that as she has more time spent with the sword she'd get smarter not dimmer.