Something bad happened to Matinicus "Matt" Hawkins in Afghanistan.
He and his wife Christi live on Cape Cod, Mass..
His first novel, "Cool Blue Tomb," won a Shamus award for best original paperback from the Private Eye Writers of America.
He is the author of a six books in the Aristotle "Soc" Socarides detective series.
He collaborated with Clive Cussler, the "Grandmaster of Adventure," in writing eight books in The New York Times bestselling NUMA Files adventure series.
About the Author: "The Emerald Scepter" is the fifteenth novel by Paul Kemprecos.
And in the process, will discover that there are treasures even more valuable than gold.
Navigate the treacherous stands of an unimaginable conspiracy.
Probe the underwater secrets of an ancient tomb.
He\'ll face off against a cold-blooded killer.
Backed by his unlikely team, Hawkins will travel thousands of miles and hundreds of years on an amazing time-space odyssey.
He pulls together an eclectic team that includes his ex-wife, a former comrade-in-arms and a mentally unstable computer whiz.
Hawkins sees his mission to foil the plot as an opportunity to search for answers.
The centerpiece of the trove, an emerald-encrusted gold scepter, is the linchpin in the Prophet\'s Necklace, code-name for a plot that is intended to kill more people than the attack on the Twin Towers and rally others to the terrorist cause.
The historian has disappeared, and the government wants Hawkins to track down the treasure as a matter of national security.
A Georgetown University historian has unearthed evidence that could lead to the fabulous treasure of Prester John, a legendary Christian ruler of an eastern empire.
A super-secret government group wants him to go back to Afghanistan on a strange and dangerous mission.
Five years later, Hawkins is jerked out of his tranquil life as a designer of undersea robots.
The doctors put his shattered leg back together, but the bitterness destroyed his marriage.
When he pushed for an investigation, he was kicked out of the Navy with a psychiatric discharge.
The ex-SEAL was grievously wounded in an ambush that killed men under his command and almost ended his life.
Something bad happened to Matinicus "Matt" Hawkins in Afghanistan
