The Lost Sun Throne

Jack Keating clears landmines on the Thai border to make up for the one he missed in Afghanistan. Then a stray water buffalo blows open a buried shrine, and inside lie a Frenchman's bones, a gold anklet bearing the seal of the Angkorian kings, and a notebook that could lead to a vanished royal treasury. Gunmen want it badly enough to kill. Jack teams up with Sophea Chea, a fierce archaeologist who hunts looted statues. Following a 600-year-old map into the Cardamom Mountains, they race a powerful collector who will bury them with the gold.