The Doomsday Prophecy: The gripping historical action thriller, from the Sunday Times bestselling Ben Hope Series, perfect for fans of Dan Brown!: Book 3

Read the first 2 in this series and went straight onto the next and was not disappointed at all. I love this character and the adventures he has they are total escapism. Hope he finds love one day!!! When I review I never give details of plots etc because dont want to spoil for anyone who is about to read. All I will say if give it a go and you will enjoy I am sure. Am now on the 4th book and loving it too.

I would probably give this one 3.5 out of 5, but 4 is the closest I could get. The story is typical for the Hope novels, save the girl, have lots of problems, and try to resolve the mystery which has enveloped him. This one carry's on from the previous book, so without trying to spoil anything, Hope is trying to return to his theology studies. However, events conspire to take him back to his old life. So why didn't I like this as much as the other Hope books, well I think it's the plot. It's almost as though Hope reaches a dead end, and then the bad guys drag him back in again, when if they had walked away, Hope would have been none the wiser. This seems to happen a couple of times in the book and to me I found it distracting, especially when Mr Mariani is a very good writer. Nevertheless, it is a good action thriller, and good for a bit of escapism. Therefore, if you're reading the other Hope books, then I would certainly say you shouldn't niss this one out.

This is my third encounter with Ben Hope, an ex-SAS trained soldier, after he leaves the army, he sets up a business dealing with the rescue of people kidnapped. In this the third book, Ben is still trying to recover from the horrific death of his wife, Leigh and decides to go back to studying theology at Oxford, except his professor Tom Bradbury's daughter goes missing while in Corfu. Ben arranges for his friend Charlie, also ex-SAS to fly out to Corfu to find her but things take a nasty turn (to put it mildy!) and Ben is forced to take over the investigation into her "capture" by rogue CIA agents who have shipped her back to America. With any Ben Hope book, one can be sure to be taken on a history, archaeology or current affairs investigation. Thanks to Scott Mariani, I've learnt about some subjects that otherwise would not have come under my radar. In this book, I've learnt about and to quote from Scott Mariani's summary of the book "Although The Doomsday Prophecy is a work of fiction, it is a fact that many millions of people across the world, the majority of them evangelical American Christians, fervently believe that we may at any moment be plunged into the apocalyptic End Time events that they claim to be forecast in the Bible." I had never heard about these fundamentalists before, so again, thank you Mr Mariani for my further education. I fortunately have about six in this series to read. Scott Mariani's style of writing flows and one can never claim boredom or lack of enthusiasm to turn the next page to find out how Ben will get himself out of his various escapades. A really excellent series of books and would make a wonderful television series as well.

this is his third book and they get better each time. His research is excellent and though using the same 'hero' there is nothing the same about each book. If you like a book that keeps you turning the page this is definitely the auther to read. I have many books like this a subject i enjoy which tells of ancient times and modern and blends superbly, I would strongly recommend this book and his others to be a good read for any age, I get first read but my kids are waiting fot me to finish and they are 22 and 25years old a good book for all ages

As the third in the Ben Hope series, we're expecting much more from the Doomsday Prophecy - we kind of know what Hope is capable of and we know just how far reaching conspiracies can be. We want the thrills and spills, we want to wonder whether these things might actually be happening out there, and we want a little bit more besides. It's an addiction of sorts, the preferred fix for armchair adrenaline junkies. The Doomsday Prophecy keeps us waiting a little longer for the action and the real intrigue to unfold, but then it more than makes up for leaving us dangling for so long. We're all familiar with at least the idea of biblical prophecy, whether we've waded through it ourselves or not. Every time there's trouble in the Middle East someone wheels out the predictions. Mariani takes it to a different level. Spoiler alert - Ben Hope does not fight God. At least not in the sense of fists and bullets flying. The plot, as we were hoping, is action, adventure and intrigue indeed, then cross and double cross and even a bit of triple cross in there for good measure. So we might see it coming before it happens. That's half the joy of this series. We know perfectly well there's no way we as average human beings could get out of these situations and we want to see how the highly skilled and possibly slightly mad Hope does it. The scheming in the Doomsday Prophecy is so multi-layered and far reaching that we can't see for sure where it reached its zenith until Hope has the answers. We are kept guessing just who is at the top. It's a little like playing a console game and just when you think you've beaten the boss, an evil laugh booms out and you fight on to meet the next one. To keep to the analogy, for every boss you kill, the danger mounts. Mariani never give us huge amounts of character detail on anyone but Hope, and yet he somehow manages to create strong impressions of each so that we can intensely like or dislike, trust or mistrust the cast. Female readers will appreciate his female characters. In this one ladies, there's one you'll come to dislike, but its ok girls - Ben does too. The Doomsday Prophecy gives us much more insight into Ben Hope, the man behind the operative. Again, Mariani tells us a lot in so few words that we hardly know why we know what we know. I may have been reading these books too much over a period of days, but I'm beginning to wonder if there's not some subliminal code at work. Or perhaps it's the simple fact that these books read like watching a movie - you see them as much as read them - so the impressions are that much stronger. Round three to you, Mr Mariani - as soon as I've posted this, I'm commencing round four.

Good read.

Scott Mariani has written another winner

OK, I read the first two books and did think they were Dan Brown on steroids as one reviewer mentioned, nevertheless great stories and great reads. “Hope Vendetta” was more of a fun read. Plot, Nick of time saves etc. really made it fun to read but plausibility was a stretch. Still all good - just started #4. Enjoy the ride and Thumbs Up to Scott Mariani

Rien a dire nothing to add Please give the option with this boxe to right in it or not Often 1 word is better than 20!!!!!!

Like the way he brings in thoughtful topics