The Takers

Why is this book out of print? At least there's an audio cassette version still available.The Takers was the first in a projected series that never got beyond the second book, and more's the pity. Ahern writes taut action/suspense, and The Takers rolls along like a freight train.Ex-CIA special operations head Steiglitz and his psycho-daughter Sonia are in a race against heroes Josh Culhane and Fanny Mulrooney - he an action-adventure novelist and she an occult writer, presently helping out the CIA - to attain an ancient sea map that will theoretically lead them to the lost continent of Atlantis. Several dead bodies, exotic locations and hair-raising scrapes later, they find what they are looking for beneath the ice of the South Pole: an ancient flying saucer base, replete with still-working technology from the stars.The story and handling are more adult than usual for this type of thing, and at least as good as anything Michael Crichton or Preston and Childs have ever written. Jerry Ahern, where the hell you been, man? Write more of these things!

THE TAKERS WAS AN EXECLLENT BOOK. IT HAD ACTION, ADVENTURE WITH A HISTORICAL FICTION ANGLE THROWN IN FOR GOOD MEASURE. THE PACE WAS FAST AND KEPT YOU TURNING THE PAGES TO SEE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT.