The Einstein Prophecy

Executive Summary: This book was alright, but nothing really special.Audiobook: Christopher Lane was quite a good narrator. He spoke clearly and with good inflections. He also did some decent accents for the characters of the book. If you're going to read this book (something I'm a bit iffy on), audio is a good option.Full ReviewThe description of this book was a bit misleading to me. I saw “young army lieutenant Lucas Athan recovers a sarcophagus excavated from an Egyptian tomb” and I'm thinking ancient Egypt, pyramids, mummies, etc.There is none of that. Instead the sarcophagus is thought to belong to a Christian saint. Wait What? And if that's not strange enough, half this book follows Einstein around. Much of his parts felt completely unnecessary to the plot. I'm not saying he's an unimportant figure in the story. His name's in the title after all. I just don't really get why so much time was spent on his daily life. If anything this book makes me want to pick up a biography on Einstein. It's the second fictionalized version of him I've read. The other was in [b:Cryptonomicon 816 Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327931476s/816.jpg 1166797], which I found far more enjoyable.The plot and the characters apart from Einstein (and other fictionalized versions of historical characters) were largely unmemorable. The story was pretty standard thriller, but at a much slower pace than I generally find for good thrillers.It's not a bad book, It's just not a great book either. I'm not that well read in thrillers these days, but there have to be better options out there over this one. If you picked it up cheap like I did though, it's entertaining enough.