Donald Gruber: 2 books

It was the early eighties: A time before cell phones and GPS, not that they would have made any difference. Bryce Phillips had finally landed a job with a construction company building a nuclear power station in rural Illinois after being laid off from a position as an apprentice machinist at Precision...

Cairo, Egypt, 1948: a war weary foreign correspondent seeks shelter from the brutal July heat. He comes upon dusty old shop and discovers a hundred year-old journal. He purchases it and is intrigued by its report of an ancient and abandoned city in the desert with the promise of rich treasure awaiting...