The Golden Scepter
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Top Ten Semi-Finalist - Clive Cussler Adventure Writers Competition, 2024
Chauncy Rollock is dead. It was in all the papers: a dig-site fire on the Iraqi border, thirty men lost, a wife and son grieving in Wyoming. The papers are wrong. Chauncy is very much alive, crossing borders on a forged passport with a stolen artifact handcuffed to his life...because the men who faked his death want it back.
He pulled it from a sealed chamber no one was meant to open: a golden scepter broken from the statue in the Book of Daniel, carved in four dead languages, with something locked inside that shouldn't exist for another three thousand years.
The order that built it has guarded its secret since Babylon fell. They burned the Library of Alexandria to keep it. They met the Knights Templar in open battle to hold it. Now they've placed a killer at Chauncy's side, an obituary over his name, and their next move runs through his family.
To stay ahead of them, a Biblical archaeologist who only ever wanted the past will spend his death racing across three continents to answer one question: what did the ancients seal inside the Golden Scepter...and what happens to the world if the Divine Flame lights it again?
One competition judge called it "an Indiana Jones vibe." Writer's Digest said it keeps readers spellbound.
Three Rollock novels have placed in the Top Ten of the Clive Cussler Adventure Writers Competition, including a 2014 Finalist. For readers of Clive Cussler, James Rollins, and Matthew Reilly - pulse-pounding adventure with no profanity or explicit content, and a thread of faith running through the fire.
The Golden Scepter is a standalone adventure. No prior reading required - this is the best place to start the Rollock Series.
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