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Gold of Exodus

This book is written like a 4th-rate children’s adventure story. From the spy story to the lead “characters” furtive journey into Saudi Arabia to their diving expedition – it’s all so full of hyperbole and exaggeration that the pictures of the book are needed to convince the reader that the trip happened at all.

The author’s genius, if you could call it that, is taking real people and re-casting them as one-dimensional cardboard characters. The way these treasure-less “treasure hunters” go about the task of finding the Exodus treasure makes them appear more clueless and dumb than I believe humans could have been in real life.

In one passage, one of our heroes can’t get his metal detector working. He painstakingly completely disassembles and re-assembles the machine and cannot figure out the problem. His genius partner suggests he checks the batteries. Wow, they’re missing! And they aren’t just missing. No, they were stolen from the machine by the mysterious unnamed spies that are constantly following the pair and attempting to thwart their journey. Right! It hurts to read this book.

Not to spoil the end of this ridiculous tale, but they don’t find one ounce of gold or any other treasure. I searched on the web and found numerous point-by-point rebuttals of the “Sinai in Arabia” thesis of the book. The most concise I read was “Problems with Mt. Sinai in Saudi Arabia” by Brad Sparks. Look it up and read this free well-written paper rather than waste any time with the silly “Gold” book.