The Copper Box

A British Expedition in search of a fabled lost city in the Polar ice cap stumble upon an ancient alien civilization. Transported deep within the earth they discover a race of beings who have been monitoring man's development for thousands of years. At first the explorers are overawed by the advanced technology and knowledge of the strangers but gradually they find that the aliens are not quite as benevolent as they seemed. What follows is a race against time as the explorers battle to save mankind from being eradicated from the planet.

An amazing discovery found in a lost and ancient artifact during a secret 1968 Smithsonian, National Geographic joint expedition has the ability to change everything the world has been told about our origin. The entity is removed and shipped to Washington, D.C.

Decades later a group of modern explorers uncover the artifact. They find a set of ancient scrolls hidden inside and discover they're not the first to visit the five-thousand year old Monolithic structure. Someone had been there before and has taken an important and mysterious antiquity.

Meanwhile, Kait Zorn is headed to the site to be the exclusive photojournalist at the biggest discovery in modern history. While she photographs and documents the find, forces in the scientific community who protect the secret of the entity, destroy the artifact with a missile strike. Kait barely escapes with her life, taking the ancient scrolls and her photos with her.

In Jerusalem, with the help of her rag-tag scientific team, the scrolls are deciphered and the implications of what was stolen from the artifact are too powerful of a secret to be kept from the world.

Kait’s older sister, Dr. Sara Zorn is a brilliant scientist. She knows if the find is made public and the secret joint Smithsonian/National Geographic expedition is exposed, it could usher in a global calamity. Years ago she committed herself to a moral atrocity and swore never to tell a soul. She’s been secretly researching the entity taken in 1968. By sequencing the DNA she developed an elixir of youth that she’s been testing on herself to achieve human superiority, only to find the serum has backfired – she is dying. Frantically, she works on adjusting the serum while orchestrating the destruction of the artifact and all who have seen it, including her own sister and father.

Kait Zorn musters her courage and is bent on finding the truth of who the entity is and expose it’s true meaning to the world – at all cost. In a frantic, globe-hopping adventure, Kait dodges danger at every turn from a mysterious villain who anticipates her every move and finds herself fighting a hideous plot by her sister to subjugate the entire human race.

The Keepers of the Key is a fast paced work of Supernatural Fiction about the loss and rediscovery of a powerful relic - the Key - which could destroy or save humanity. A powerful mystery thriller set both in the Mediterranean of the Crusades and in present day Britain.

A young Knight Templar must fight his way across Medieval Europe to recover the artefact from King Saladin's stronghold of Acre while the city is under siege. Meanwhile in the modern day, Dowd and Jonathan must race to uncover the forgotten history of the Key and recover the fabled artefact before it falls into the hands of those that would use its power for evil.

Great and ancient powers arise from humanity's forgotten history to take sides in this fight. One sends a terrible Golem to destroy them - it cannot be harmed, it cannot be stopped and it will never give up. Another, the Archangel Michael freed from his servitude, seems content to merely watch though he has the power to sway the battle as he sees fit.

And throughout all of this walk the children of the Watchers. Giants sired by disloyal Angels, they posses fearsome powers and greater wisdom yet they choose to remain in the shadows, guiding and advising - but can their motives be trusted?

The fate of humanity lies with these men and pivots on their willingness to believe in themselves and each other. Strength and knowledge alone cannot defeat the enemies they face, but where might fails, maybe faith can succeed.

The Keepers of the Key is Book 1 of the Keepers Trilogy.

It's 1941, the world is at War, and England stands alone against the German onslaught. A young Egyptologist at the Royal London Museum, Reginald Billings, in a burst of patriotic fervor joins the RAF and is assigned to an observation platform in the middle of the Egyptian desert. The lieutenant's position soon becomes the target of a devastating air assault. But, three seconds before he is reduced to his subatomic particles the lieutenant is propelled down a narrow shaft into an underground temple where he discovers fifteen ancient scrolls that will render every text on Ancient Egypt obsolete. Alive for now, the lieutenant must find a way out of his gilded prison and back to the safety of his own lines with both himself and the scrolls intact. However, safety, for the badly wounded lieutenant, proves to be an illusion. Others, with knowledge that an ancient secret is locked within the scrolls have learned of his discovery, and neither war nor distance will keep them from doing everything in their power to obtain the scrolls. From the battle fields of Egypt to the lush English countryside Lieutenant Billings now finds himself in a battle of wits with a nameless foe lead by the mysterious Mr. Omar, not only for possession of the scrolls, but for is very survival.

Sixty years later Professor Taylor, the current but soon to be ex-head curator of the University Museum of New York City, discovers an unopened box posted to the Royal London Museum in 1944, containing fifteen ancient Egyptian scrolls, and a journal penned by a Lieutenant Billings, RAF. Overcome with curiosity, Professor Taylor races through the journal and is captivated by what he reads. But much to his chagrin, he soon discovers that deep within the shadows of his own museum lurks the very same Mr. Omar. And the last chapter regarding the scrolls is about to be played out, for neither time nor distance has diminished Mr. Omar's need to possess them.

For two thousand years the Triarii have protected us, influencing history from the crusades to the discovery of America. Descendent from the Roman Empire, they pervade every level of society, and are now in a race with our own government to retrieve an ancient artifact thought to have been lost forever.

Caught in the middle is archaeology professor James Acton, relentlessly hunted by the elite Delta Force, under orders to stop at nothing to possess what he has found, and the Triarii, equally determined to prevent the discovery from falling into the wrong hands.

With his students and friends dying around him, Acton flees to find the one person who might be able to help him, but little does he know he may actually be racing directly into the hands of an organization he knows nothing about...

The Protocol is a complete novel at 80,000 words or 310 trade paperback pages.

Other James Acton Thrillers Available:

Brass Monkey, Book #2
Broken Dove, Book #3
The Templar's Relic, Book #4

This book starts in Rome in 2000, it is about a piece of papyrus that has been found in the Vatican vaults, by a night janitor, this leads three men on an epic journey of adventure and intriegue that will eventually lead them to the "Great Gateway" and home again, yet not before they have to look death, squarly in the face.

the adventure takes them to the unknown and beyond, to the far corners of the Earth, and the perils of man and his insatiable desire to own for himself that which he was never meant to have, this book will be seen as purely fiction, a figment of the authors imagination! however, I challenge, those of you with inqusitive minds to read this book and make your own mind up as to whether it is purely fantasy or whether there may just be a glimer of truth mingled in, that is for the reader to decide.