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The Last Monument
The Last Monument | Michael C Grumley
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One small, handwritten letterSent from a dark, remote corner of the planetAnd lost in the system for sixty yearsIs about to change the entire human race.Outside Denver, Colorado, Joe Rickards stands over a small aircraft wreckage, studying burnt remains still smoldering in a field of freshly fallen snow...an investigator for the NTSB, working to carefully roll back the last several hours and identify the cause of the accident. But this time, he can't. The details behind this tragedy don't add up. Unlike every other investigation of Joe's career, the facts make no sense. Each new piece of information only makes the accident more mysterious, and more baffling.Why would a person receive an age-old letter and suddenly disappear into the thick of night...paying to be flown out of a closed airport in the worst possible weather conditions, by a pilot who hadn't had his hand on the stick in years?With the only surviving relative insisting her grandfather would never have climbed into a small airplane in the first place, even in perfect weather.A bizarre string of events culminating in a horrible accident unlike anything Rickards has experienced. Leaving his only hope at understanding it in the hands of the victim's sole remaining relative. Beginning with how a mysterious letter could turn up after being lost in the system for sixty years. Sent by someone who should have already been long dead. A single letter, Joe Rickards is about to discover, with a secret that will change the entire world.
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kspenmoll
The Last Monument | Michael C Grumley
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Slow initially,but when the pace picks up,this read is like an Indiana Jones type ride,combined with a treasure hunt of sorts,with Nazis & sci fi thrown in.An ex-FBI & NTSB agent reluctantly accompanies a female anthropologist to the depths of Peru.She has just received a 60 yr old cryptic note that sends her off on this hunt.They meet up with a retired NSA astronaut & scientist looking to discover an undiscovered energy source,& join forces.🔽

kspenmoll 🔼 The ending seems rushed,& a bit abrupt, but this was a tension filled listen for me. #audio 2y
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kspenmoll
The Last Monument | Michael C Grumley
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I finished Murder at Westminster last night- 50 pps read. I am listening to The Last Monument, so should get a few chapters in. The only book I may finish is Off the Wild Coast of Brittany. The others I may be able to read some pages. #20in4 #readathon

Andrew65 Well done 👏👏👏 2y
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kspenmoll
The Last Monument | Michael C Grumley
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#liquidcourage #audiobook

So far (ch.12) this book is intriguing,but also for wimpy me, rather scary. No explicit torture, just allusions to it. Yet I am compelled to listen, in small bites. Set in present time, but plot involves WWII & Hitler.

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bookandbedandtea
The Last Monument | Michael C Grumley
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This mystery sounds intriguing but the way the author is spoonfeeding the info is getting on my nerves. Every 5 or so pages a few people will be talking and one starts saying something they know the others don't have the context to understand but, instead of giving us the 5 or so sentences needed for the full picture, they make the others slooowly pull it out of them 4 words at a time. Seriously, Mr Author, I can handle more.