Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Lost Cult
She inhaled the mask's oxygen through her mouth, as she had since she'd started flushing the nitrogen out of her blood in the Royal Australian Air Force C-130J transport an hour ago.
Getting the nitrogen out of her blood saved her from the bends. Breathing through her mouth saved her a nosebleed.
A high-altitude low-open jump is nothing to sneeze at - or during.
(CourtesyAmazon.com)
What is it?
Another globe-hopping adventure for Lara Croft, taking in the CIA, a murdered colleague and a mysterious Peruvian cult.
Who wrote it?
E. E. Knight, a teacher of genre fiction writing at Harper College in Illinois.
Fanboy factor?
It takes only a few pages for Lara to become "uncomfortably hot" in her techno jumpsuit and just a couple more before she's peeling it off and shaking her hair out. This guy knows his audience.
Is it any good?
Despite Knight's compulsive usage of needlessly exotic words like 'imprecations', 'sybaritic' and 'spoof board' - presumably to hammer home Lara's sophisticated upbringing - his writing is engaging enough to divert the attention of any reader.
Further reading
Other Lara-touting books includeThe Man of Bronze, or the first Tomb Raider novel,The Amulet of Power.
