The Golden Library

Name: The Golden Library
Brand: Harper UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Scott Mariani
ISBN: 9780008601171

Author: Scott Mariani

Series: Ben Hope #29

Narrator: Colin Mace

Unabridged: 11 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperNorth

Published: 05/09/2024

Categories: Fiction, Action & Adventure, Suspense & Thriller, Military Fiction, Espionage, Mystery & Detective, Private Investigators

Synopsis

Learn the secret – or die trying Has ex-SAS soldier Ben Hope finally got out of his depth? That’s the question Ben faces when the hunt for a missing girl takes him to China. He’s a stranger in a strange land – but he’s also the victim’s only hope. To make things worse, she’s almost family. As the pressure mounts, so does the gruesome death toll. With ruthless enemies in pursuit and an unlikely alliance with an enigmatic detective his only lifeline, Ben realises that this situation is far more explosive than even he’d bargained for. Suddenly it’s no longer just the missing girl’s fate depending on him. At the heart of the mystery lies an ancient secret dating back to China’s first emperor and the legendary Terracotta Army – a secret that people will still kill for, millennia later. Ben Hope has never turned his back on those in need, and he’s no stranger to tough odds. But can he survive long enough to discover the truth – and is he ready for the consequences?

About Scott Mariani

Scott Mariani grew up in St. Andrews, Scotland. He studied Modern Languages at Oxford and went on to work as a translator, a professional musician, a pistol shooting instructor, and a freelance journalist before becoming a full-time writer. After spending several years in Italy and France, Scott discovered his secluded writer’s haven in the wilds of west Wales, an 1830s country house complete with rambling woodland and a secret passage. When he isn’t writing, Scott enjoys jazz, movies, classic motorcycles, and astronomy.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Caroline on May 24, 2024

Wow! This is the best Ben Hope adventure so far, and all the others have been brilliant, too. Ben Hope is in Switzerland for his sister, Ruth's, engagement party. During the weekend, Steffan's sister Lara disappears in China. She's there on a year out from her university course. Lara's Chinese boyf......more

Goodreads review by Simon on August 30, 2024

This installment of the Hope series had one of my favorite disciplines: the Dim Mak. As a teenager in the eighties, like many, I was a big fan of Jean Claude Van Damme and his martial arts movies. In his breakthrough movie Blood Sport, JCVD must prove himself a student of Sensei Tanaka, and worthy o......more

Goodreads review by Keshav on July 14, 2024

The Golden Library by Scott Mariani is a gripping thriller that combines mystery, history, and high-stakes adventure into a captivating narrative. Mariani has once again proven himself to be a master of the genre, delivering a page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats from start......more

Goodreads review by Clive on April 18, 2025

Three stars but actually a 3.5 star rating. Exciting, thrilling and somewhat clichéd at times, our hugely likeable action hero puts the boot in to some thoroughly unpleasant and violent villains in the far east. The descriptions of what they did are suitably stomach churning and so they deserved eve......more

Goodreads review by Joe on September 29, 2024

Another fantastic part of the continuing story, a trip to China via Switzerland and family. A good read, but a slightly different angle as much of the story is the adventures of Ben Hope and gang across rural China. The story could have spent a lot longer on the discovery of the library, which is so......more

Quotes

‘Compelling from the first page until the last, Mariani and his fabulous protagonist Ben Hope entertain in a gripping tale that will have you turning the pages well into the night’ ‘Thrilling. Scott Mariani is at the top of his game’ ‘A high level of realism … the action scenes come thick and fast. Like the father of the modern thriller, Frederick Forsyth, Mariani has a knack for embedding his plots in the fears and preoccupations of their time’ ‘James Bond meets Jason Bourne meets The Da Vinci Code’ ‘History, action, devious scheming and eye-opening detail. Mariani delivers a twisting storyline’ 'Non-stop action – this book delivers’