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Krontos Lazarevic may be the vilest sorcerer to ever live. He stands in the way of William Barrow (aka Judas Iscaritot) finishing his quest to reclaiming thirty pieces of silver paid to him to betray Jesus Christ.
Forced to flee an underground fortress in Abingdon, Virginia, William and his companions end up in the quirky spiritual town of Sedona, Arizona. For a short while, it appears they might finally have a moment to enjoy life without looking over their shoulders. But the purchase of a horse ranch brings only temporary happiness once Krontos demands William’s surrender of the Dragon Coin.
In the midst of this latest crisis, another blood coin resurfaces. Believed lost with the fall of the Third Reich, this coin was once legendary for miraculous events among prisoners at Stutthof and later Auschwitz concentration camps. For that reason alone, it is preferred by Krontos over the Dragon Coin. But the coin also is key to restoring a medieval shrine known as The Silver Trinity of Death.
The race is on to block Krontos from purchasing the Stutthof-Auschwitz Coin from the antiquities black market. If the shrine is restored to its previous state, nothing will stand in the way of Krontos’s grand designs—something he once enlisted the Nazis to help accomplish.
The atrocities of World War II serve as a reminder that unspeakable horror is never far away. And as such, the stakes have never been higher, or deadlier, for William and the gang as they travel to Germany, Poland, and finally Hungary to stop this latest madman from taking over the world.
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Immortal Tyranny The Judas Chronicles Book 5 edition by Aiden James Literature Fiction eBooks
As usual Aiden James has written another book that is fast paced, entertaining and full of historical references. I have enjoyed reading these series of books and this one did not disappoint me. In each of the books of this series, the book is a stand alone with just enough background to fill the reader in on what has been happening in previous books, without it being redundant. However, reading the entire series is highly recommended as you don't want to miss one adventure of the characters.Product details
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Immortal Tyranny The Judas Chronicles Book 5 edition by Aiden James Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This is book 5 in a great series. Aiden James has done so much with the storyline and characters that gives the reader such a journey to travel with it all. This time Judas is still running from the evil Krontos Lazarevic. He just wants to find some peace and happiness for his family and friends. But Krontos won't allow that to happen yet. Judas and his family and friends are on a mission to recover another coin but Krontos has other ideas. Aiden outdid himself with this book and it was so full of emotion that there is no way the reader can't find themselves connected to the journey Judas is on. I really enjoy this series and can't wait to see where Aiden will lead us next.
Got this book as a free through BookBub. The premise seemed quite interesting, but I found out that this is the fifth book in the series, so in preparation I went on Goodreads and Wikipedia to get summaries of the first four. The premise is this William Barrow, archivist for the Smithsonian and part-time operative for the CIA, is in actuality Judas Iscariot, betrayer of Christ for 30 pieces of silver ("Blood Coins"). Well, God punished Judas by making him immortal. William/Judas feels that if he can retrieve the 30 scattered coins, God will pardon him, cease his immortality and bring him to Heaven. By the time the first book, "Plague of Coins," begins, 21 or so have been located and reclaimed. In this quest he has his wife, Beatrice; son, Allister Barrow, History professor at Georgetown; Alistair's fiancée Amy Golden Eagle; and two friends, Roderick Cooley (another immortal, actually a Druidic friend of Judas from "Back in the Day") and Frederick Tomlinson. Of course, there are always the bad guys, who would seize the coins from William and use them to their own nefarious ends (Think of the three Nazi baddies from "Raiders of the Lost Ark"). Thus, Viktor Kazlow, nasty, unscrupulous, albeit filthy rich, Russian, is on a mission to intercept William and company's trip to Iran to find Coin #22; the CIA apparently has some alternate plans too...In "Reign Of Coins," Viktor Kaslow somehow becomes immortal, and they race to Hong Kong, to find a cursed coin (among other related artifacts) from Genghis Khan, which supposedly inspired his violence. Apparently the CIA is at cross-purposes here too. The third book, "Destiny of Coins," William seeks the "Singing Coin," which has the most power of all of them; of course Viktor Kazlow is on the trail too, as are a number of other "interests." Somehow, however, Viktor is disposed with or at least rendered nonthreatening. The fourth, "The Dragon Coin," introduces Vlad Tepes, aka "Vlad the Impaler" (inspiration for Dracula), who's been after William and Roderick for some time, but who wants the coins to achieve eternal youth and the ability to "walk in the sunshine." Again, these are just thumbnail sketches of the first four books, for background.
That now brings us to "Tyranny of Coins," in which another nasty Hungarian fella named Krontos Lazarevic has managed to flush our heroes out of a sort of fortress in Abdington, Virginia, owned by Roderick, and they are now hiding out in Sedona, Arizona. William's family has been using magic crystals from the Tree of Life on their Iran trek, which reverse the aging process. Well, it turns out that Krontos was the fiend who had reanimated Dracul/Vlad, so he's really a nasty character! To quote the book, "Krontos' motives are always harmful to the human race. You've heard it said that madmen revel in the world burning to ashes around them. That image defines him better than anything else."
Well, OK, now we are in pursuit of a coin that had been described as having very curative and helpful powers during Hitler's reign, with the coin itself having been reportedly seen in one or another of Hitler's death camps, and is referred to as the "Suttoff-Auschwitz Coin." And if I may quote here "A handful of survivors from these horrific death camps spoke of a magical coin that could heal, somehow feed, and protect dozens from the beatings, shootings, fateful trips to the gas chambers, etc. They say it glowed with a blue sheen - the same thing (we) can see in the other coins." It had been in the possession of the Nazis for short periods of time and had reportedly been seen by the likes of Joseph Mengele and Himmler. It's for sale on the Black Market, but the sellers have been killed (uh-oh, I suspect foul play). William engages the assistance of Benevento Vitorio, who had betrayed Judas all those millennia ago, and who assists him at times as reparation for this betrayal. Benevento indicates that Rome has been watching Krontos for several centuries as he has been both a potential and an actual threat to their more humanitarian missions. Apparently, Krontos had had a shrine using the powers from three coins William now has in his possession ("Trinity of Coins") and wants to reanimate the shrine for his own nefarious purposes, including, well, world domination.
The actual plot is much more involved and complex, adding to the enjoyment, but I've already gone on too much. Suffice it to say there is a climactic confrontation with Krontos, and William ends up with the Trinity of Coins. As to the coins themselves, whenever Judas/William has a coin in his possession, or even touches it, he suffers all the pain and humiliation Jesus did after his betrayal, with the pain and empathic suffering becoming deeper with each coin. Thus, even with the goal of amassing all thirty of them, William pays a deeper, more painful price. An additional problem is that, at the end of this book, there are only two more coins to find and collect, to achieve what William hopes is his salvation and deliverance from immortality. However, since William remains young and his wife and family have been able to become young again, William is quite ambivalent about ending these relationships. Some underlying tension, then, regarding entering into the final phase of his goal.
I must say I enjoyed this book, but really had to review the previous-book summaries to get a true appreciation of it. Indeed, there are references to characters and events in previous books that I didn't find in the summaries. So, if you're gonna tackle this series, I'd recommend starting from the beginning.
And, of course, there's a bonus at the end, namely the first couple chapters of the next book, "Pyramid of Coins," which takes our intrepid heroes to New Orleans and the current reincarnation of Jack the Ripper. There's also a teaser from one of Mr. James' other books, "Cades Cove The Curse of Allie Mae," a paranormal thriller series. Fun read.
Aiden James is a master story teller who keeps you interested i what will happen next. This is book number 5 in the Judas Chronicles and by far the best so far. We follow William/Judas on another quest to find one of the coins he was paid for lthe betraying Jesus over 2000 years ago. This coin is called lthe Holocaust Coin as it was in the concentration camps during WWII and was said to be linked to miraculous events among the prisoners there. You will follow William and his family and friends into Germany, Poland and Hungary in search of the coin. Of course there is a villin trying to stop them from finding the coin. We met the sorcerer Krontos in the Dragon Coin and he is still as evil as ever. Will he have success in stopping William from finding coin number 26? Will our old friend (said with tounge in cheek) show up as this is his part of the world? You will have to read the latest in the adventures of William Judas Barrow to find out. I highly recommend this book as it is the best so far in this series and as always is acton packed with lots of twists and turns to keep you turnig pages till the end.
If you've read the previous books I don't need to rehash the settings. This one introduces a few new fantasmogorical elements of perfect mind reading and unlimited use of wormholes without all the unpleasantness of collapsing sunlike bodies. The main character(s) are still upbeat and still on an obvious quest implied by the title. In addition 70% of the book spent in the company of just six people and their quipped conversations easily gives way to very tight action with fighting immortals.
Now for the bad - the reasons I take away two stars
The idea of a few ultra "bad" immortals driving all the most horrible things in the long history of the world is not new, but in the way it's done here it quickly becomes extremely annoying, where transparency of that story ark is completely undermined by the feeble attempts to insert "or really? You don't say..." We got the point, this is book five and it's too late to play coy.
The other problem - if you endow "bad" guys with cosmic powers it's extremely hard to come up with a believable and exploitable Achilles heel. Here the slight of hand looks extremely far fetched, but used (successfully no less!!!) two times in about 10 pages. Kinda destroys your already stretched limitations of the book's world.
Minor issue I'm not taking the star for is the way one of the coins disappears. Once again it destroys any sense of wholesomeness of the plot, and the funny thing it's not even referred to in the book. Kinda like the author came up with this twist in the middle of heavy drinking bout. And the next day said "holly s*, what have I done?" But it was too late since he already sent the script to the publisher.
All I all - readable, with still lovable characters.
As usual Aiden James has written another book that is fast paced, entertaining and full of historical references. I have enjoyed reading these series of books and this one did not disappoint me. In each of the books of this series, the book is a stand alone with just enough background to fill the reader in on what has been happening in previous books, without it being redundant. However, reading the entire series is highly recommended as you don't want to miss one adventure of the characters.
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