This novel is a pretentious comic book - hardly the "greatest book ever written." The comparison to "Indiana Jones" is apt and if that's what you want, this rejected movie script of a thriller is right up your deadend alley. As for the "greatest book I ever read", well, have you read them all yet, or even more than a few? I'm still partial to Stendahl's "Red and the Black." But Alten's work may be literature to those who view "Joe Dirt" as great cinema and think Denny's a five star dining experience. Others, beware.