I wanted to like this book so much but it felt like a budget version of Clive Cussler's Fargo series. The adventure was middling and you had to suspend so much belief while reading this. Gabriela Rose is a recovery agent. She finds missing items for wealthy clients all over the world. When her grandmother is told by a ghost that she can find a map that will lead her to the Seal of Solomon she is skeptical. But regardless she breaks into her old house to dig beneath the floorboards and find the map. She gets caught by her ex-husband (it is his house after all) and he convinces her to tag along on the journey when they really do find the map. If they find the Seal of Solomon they can sell it and use the millions of dollars to save their hometown and help their parents (it was ravaged by a hurricane). The map leads them to the jungles of Peru and on an adventure they will never forget. Readers are supposed to believe that this scuba diving ex-husband and Gabriela are extremely competent with every conceivable type of gun and have no qualms about killing cult members and drug lords. They aren't even former military, they just know how to use every type of gun and escape any insanely situation all while being ridiculously confident. They seem to have no flaws. They are very two dimensional characters. I don't think I will be reading the sequel.
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