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About Ernest Dempsey

Hey, neighbor. My name is Ernest Dempsey, and I would love to be your guide on a journey of exploration, discovery, and the experience of a lifetime through the eyes of my characters.

I love history. Always have, as long as I can remember. And I also love literature. Same story with that. Most of all, I love archaeological thrillers like the ones I grew up watching in the 1980s: the Goonies, Indiana Jones, stuff with a mystery and a good treasure hunt. Now I live in the most amazing dream where I get to write those kinds of archaeological thrillers for a living.

I've also always had a fondness for Fantasy and Science Fiction. So, if you snoop around my catalog you may find a few of those stories too.

I attended Southern Adventist University from 1995-2003, earning a bachelors degree in psychology and a masters in school counseling. In my heart, however, I've always been a storyteller, an entertainer. So, after twelve years of working in the school system, I quit my job to write full time.

I've learned over the years, both in writing stories and in my experience, that life is unpredictable.

Cliché, I know.

But people crave a little predictability now and then, when the good guys win and the bad guys get their comeuppance. The most important thing, both in books and in life, is that the end can be easy to predict so long as the journey isn't. You may know how a story will end, or at least have an inkling, but if you don't know how it gets there, then that unpredictability makes it fun.

That's how I approach storytelling.

So, if you like twists in stories, you'll find them here. All along the journey. And maybe occasionally at the end. But one thing is certain; you will never be bored.

Come on this journey with me. I promise I will always work hard to honor your valuable time with exciting action, baffling mysteries, and intriguing history.

Join the adventure, and get four free stories on my website at www.ernestdempsey.net.

See y'all in there,

Ernest Dempsey

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Where Horizons End: A Sean Wyatt Archaeological Thriller (Sean Wyatt Adventure Book 21) 28/01/2022

by Ernest Dempsey, Jason Whited, Anne Storer

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JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SEE SOMETHING... DOESN'T MEAN IT ISN'T THERE.

Throughout history, kings, presidents, prime ministers, and treasure hunters have sought the fabled lost city of Shangri La. For centuries, this utopia has been relegated to fiction and lore, believed to be nothing more than a legend in the eyes of every historical expert in the world.

Until an archaeologist discovers an ancient map carved into a sacred mountain in China, and is murdered because of it.

Now, Sean Wyatt and his team from the International Archaeological Agency must trace his work and solve a series of clues that wind through China, and relearn this fascinating country's history that could lead to the key to opening Shambala's gates.

But they aren't the only ones who seek the door to Shangri La. An old rival is chasing down the clues as well, financed by one of the Far East's most powerful underworld leaders.

Where Horizons End is the first Sean Wyatt novel in over a year from USA Today Bestseller Ernest Dempsey. It's a powerful story about courage, friendship, and salvation against impossible odds, and in the face of a possibility that defies logic, and science as we understand it--and with a twist ending that you won't see coming.

This is also the 21st book in the Sean Wyatt Adventure Series, an up-tempo archaeological thriller story that spans more than a decade, and follows a set of heroes on their personal and professional journeys against all odds, and all manner of villains.

Welcome to the IAA

The International Archaeological Agency is a fictional agency based in Atlanta, Georgia. The agency's primary purpose is recovery, security, transport, and analysis of priceless artifacts pulled from dig sites all around the world. That job often gets complicated when nefarious characters emerge.

Follow along with the entire Series, and become a member of the IAA Field Division. There's no telling what you may find out there in the world of lost history.

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The Sahara Legacy: A Sean Wyatt Archaeological Thriller (Sean Wyatt Adventure Book 13) 26/06/2017

by Ernest Dempsey, Jason Whited, Anne Storer

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Unimaginable wealth. The authority to command nations. Eternal life.

The god-like power promised by the lost desert city of Zerzura is as frightening as it is alluring.

Former secret agent Sean Wyatt and his best friend, Tommy Schultz, have never hunted anything like it. But the legend and the unlimited power it promises are so improbable that other archeologists—including Tommy’s parents—gave up looking for Zerzura decades ago.

Most call it a myth. That all changes when a chance discovery in the Middle East reveals long-hidden clues about the possible truth behind the Zerzura legend and catapults Sean and Tommy smack in the middle of a race to find the lost city and to protect humanity from its dark, unlimited dominion.

Unfortunately for Sean and Tommy, some very evil, very powerful men are also on the trail. To keep Zerzura’s near-limitless power from falling into the wrong hands, they must outwit a dark nemesis from their past, blast through his legions of gun-toting assassins, and forge new and unstable alliances that threaten their mission nearly from the start.

A breathless sprint across two continents, The Sahara Legacy is both a gripping tale of intrigue and an imagining of ancient powers that lie just beyond the limits of human control and comprehension. Grab your copy today and join the adventure.

Welcome to the IAA.

The International Archaeological Agency operates out of Atlanta, Georgia, and is focused primarily on securing and transporting artifacts. Now and then, IAA agents are required to go beyond that mission statement and venture into dangerous, uncharted waters.

The fact you're looking at this book says you're ready to join the adventure with the agents of the IAA, and enter a whole new world of discovery.

Ernest Dempsey blends elements from political, pulp, historical, travel, action and adventure, and conspiracy thrillers into a ripping hot, up tempo action story that will keep you pinned to the pages until you have to turn just one more. Each book represents hundreds of hours of research into history, secret societies, ancient cultures, and legends.

Welcome aboard. Enjoy the adventure.

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Emergence: A Gideon Wolf Supernatural Story 01/04/2022

by Ernest Dempsey, Jason Whited, Anne Storer

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Maybe the hero humanity needs is actually a monster.

At first, Dr. Gideon Wolf thinks the guy standing in front of him is insane.

Ten million bucks for what amounts to a glorified treasure hunt. Ten million dollars, this man offers him, to find a mythical amulet based on, apparently, some maps he printed off the internet and his outsize faith in make-believe.
Turns out the unwelcome interlocutor isn’t just some garden-variety kook. He’s Vicente Carrillo, the world’s most feared drug lord, and Gideon learns fast that the deal is nonnegotiable.

Held captive by Carrillo’s thugs in the Mexican jungle, Gideon escapes before the expedition . . . only to stumble into an ancient, hidden temple that contains the medallion itself.
The instant he touches the amulet, he knows why Carrillo wants it. It exudes a power that makes him feel invincible.

But there’s a downside. The medallion has disfigured him horribly. What was once the respected archaeologist Dr. Gideon Wolf is now a bloodthirsty monstrosity: part wolf, part dog, part man.

“El Chupacabra,” a cartel gunman gasps as Gideon bashes his skull in an escape.
Gideon’s amulet is one of seven, hidden by the ancients millennia ago and bestowing great responsibility on whoever finds, and dons, the powerful artifacts.

To fulfill his destiny as El Chupacabra, the Guardian of the Innocent, he must first learn to control his all-too-real animal instincts while protecting the amulet from Carrillo, who’s launched a private army straight at Gideon to steal it back.

USA Today best-selling author Ernest Dempsey again blends his mastery of history, myth, and suspense to deliver the first great series of 2022. Emergence marks the introduction of an antihero for the new age: Dr. Gideon Wolf, a man whom fate pushes through the door of history to fulfill a lonely, dangerous destiny.

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The Omega Project: A Sean Wyatt Archaeological Thriller (Sean Wyatt Adventure Book 17) 29/03/2019

by Ernest Dempsey, Jason Whited, Anne Storer

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President John Dawkins has earned a break.
After two successful terms—despite a series of political maelstroms—this humble Southern gentleman united the country behind a common purpose, strengthened America’s standing throughout the world, and kept his nation safe.
So, when Dawkins retires to his cabin in the Georgia woods, about the only excitement he’s looking for involves romantic dinners with his girlfriend and the occasional cold beer while watching his Atlanta Falcons.
Unfortunately, powerful past enemies he didn’t even know he made have been waiting—waiting for their chance to exact revenge for a series of vile grudges and dubious grievances. And despite his world-class security, they’ve tracked Dawkins down.
They drug him, kidnap him, and stash the former president all the way across the country.
And they pin the crime on former secret-agent-turned archeologist Sean Wyatt, one of the former president’s closest friends.
The news media, the feds, local cops—it seems everyone is hunting Sean, and he barely escapes the dragnet as he races to save his old friend.
But this will be no mere rescue mission. The kidnappers, hungry for power as well as for retribution, order Sean to find them perhaps the world’s deadliest secret weapon, the most lethal force in antiquity, hidden by the nations of the world for fear of its awe-inspiring destructive power.
To solve the riddle and save the former president, the kidnappers give Sean just one week—an impossible task to evade a nationwide manhunt and solve the most dangerous mystery of his life.
In The Omega Project, USA Today best-selling author Ernest Dempsey is at his most impressive. This stark, evocative puzzle, this dark thriller, is capstone storytelling. With nerve-shredding action and the precision of a master craftsman, Dempsey reminds us that, sometimes, the greatest dangers are those we think we’ve put behind us.
This archaeological thriller is sure to keep you burning through the pages late into the night. Get into some of the best adventure fiction kindle unlimited has to offer.

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The Sean Wyatt Series: Books 1-3 Box Set: A Sean Wyatt Archaeological Thriller (Sean Wyatt Adventure Book 1) 24/02/2015

by Ernest Dempsey

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They tried to kill him to cover up an ancient secret. Now Sean Wyatt is plunged into a race against time to save his best friend's life and the lives of billions. And he has no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes.

This scorching adventure will have you up late into the night, telling yourself to read just one more page. With an old secret society, an evil mastermind with terrifying plans, and mysterious ancient history melded right into the plot, you're sure to love every second of this box set.

The thrill ride begins with book one, The Secret of the Stones. It continues with book two, The Cleric's Vault, and ends with an incredible climax in book three, The Last Chamber.

Half Indiana Jones, half spy, when the government needed something done quietly, Sean Wyatt was the guy they called. Life in covert missions took it's toll, though, and he finally made a change, taking a job with a friend's artifact recovery agency. He was looking for purpose and a life where bullets aren't always coming his way. What he got was more trouble than he bargained for.

Grab this box set now to begin your journey around the world a new hero.

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Two Nights In Mumbai: A Dak Harper Thriller (The Relic Runner Book 2) 07/05/2021

by Ernest Dempsey

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For Dak Harper, tracking down lost relics for an eccentric young millionaire sounded like an easy gig, especially after years dodging bullets for the Delta Force.

It seemed like a great way to bank some cash, travel to exciting destinations on his boss’ dime, and keep under the radar of some very bad men trying to kill him.

But Dak has traded one deadly set of problems for another. He might be making bank in his new career, but each country he visits is chock full of entirely new groups of heavily armed men aiming to stop his work and put him in a body bag. Dak might have traded his combat fatigues for jeans and trainers, but he’s still getting shot at for money.

Now in India to save a stolen idol and rescue the Mumbai museum curator protecting it, he’s got to duck Russian mobsters, sidestep an Indian casino boss who wants more than just his time, and distract a local police force who seems to be as incompetent as they are clueless.

If Dak has to keep this up, there’s a good chance this new job is gonna get him killed faster than his old one.

USA Today best-selling author Ernest Dempsey is back with the frenetic follow-up in his Relic Runner series. This latest thriller, Book 2 in the new series, again expands Dempsey’s ever-growing world of spies, soldiers, and secret societies with a fresh adventure as dangerous as it is gripping.

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The Heart of Vengeance: A Dak Harper Serial Thriller (The Relic Runner Origin Story Book 6) 28/08/2020

by Ernest Dempsey

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The path to revenge is never easy.

Former Delta Force operative Dak Harper has one target left in his sights, but his old rival Bo Taylor won’t go down easily.

With time against him, Dak races across the Atlantic and arrives in Portugal to find his friend Will strapped to an explosive device.

The chain of events are set in motion. The gauntlet is laid.

Can Dak Harper survives, save Will, and challenge Bo to one final battle to the death? Or will Dak lose everything and everyone he cares about.

This is the first story in the Relic Runner Origin Story anthology.

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The Courier: A Dak Harper Thriller (The Relic Runner Book 1) 02/04/2021

by Ernest Dempsey, Jason Whited, Anne Storer

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Former Special Forces operator Dak Harper needs a job.

Out of work and on the run after a shocking betrayal by his brothers-in-arms, the ex-Special Forces commando hasn’t stopped moving for months. He can’t. Some of the same soldiers who left him for dead in the Middle East still want his head. And as long as Dak's alive, they know they will never be safe.

Fate intervenes when an eccentric young millionaire offers Dak a gig hunting down stolen artifacts. The catch? His first assignment is to recover a priceless item that's in the possession of the most fear cartel boss in Peru.

This cartel doesn't just smuggle drugs, though. They have diversified into illegal gold mining, and human trafficking.

Dak finds himself caught between doing his job, and helping the people of the slums outside of Lima, whose suffering and squalor goes largely unnoticed by any developed nation's media. He learns of their plight through an unlikely introduction to a small boy named Hector. A bond is forged, and Dak knows he can't ignore what's happening.

With a corrupt mayor in the back pocket of the cartel, Dak is in for the toughest fight of his life to help the people of Lima, and recover an artifact that once belonged to the famed conquistador, Francisco Pizarro.

USA Today best-selling author Ernest Dempsey, creator of the popular Sean Wyatt series, again expands his ever-growing universe of spies, soldiers, treasure hunters, and terrorists. Dak Harper is the baddest good guy you’ve ever met, and the pace of Dempsey’s new series is as unrelenting as anything he’s ever written.
It's no wonder The Relic Runner is one of the most anticipated new series in the genre in the last ten years.

A must-read for fans of Lee Child, Steve Berry, James Rollins, Clive Cussler, or anyone who loves the John Wick movies.

Ernest Dempsey writes high action, archaeological thrillers that bring in elements of adventure, private investigation, international mystery, historical aspects from a wide range of cultures, vigilante justice, worldwide travel, secret societies, and political conspiracies.

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The Grecian Manifesto: A Sean Wyatt Archaeological Thriller (Sean Wyatt Adventure Book 4) 23/09/2014

by Ernest Dempsey

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Over two thousand years ago a weapon of untold power vanished in a shipwreck.

When master thief Adriana Villa goes missing during her search for a device called The Eye of Zeus, former government agent Sean Wyatt is called in by the president to find what she was looking for. Once more, Wyatt is in a race against time as he speeds across the world to Rome, Athens, and to the Ionian Sea. He must unlock the riddles that have baffled historians and treasure seekers for thousands of years if he is to discover the mysterious object.

But he isn't the only one searching for The Eye of Zeus. There is another player in the game, and with his wealth and power, he might be able to leverage the balance to suit his evil desires, which will mean financial ruin for all of Europe, and perhaps the world.

Along the way, Sean and his sidekick, Tommy Schultz, find themselves in a pulse-pounding race to the prize filled with bullets, close quarters combat, and an underwater treasure that could alter the course of history.

Welcome to the IAA.

The International Archaeological Agency operates out of Atlanta, Georgia, and is focused primarily on securing and transporting artifacts. Now and then, IAA agents are required to go beyond that mission statement and venture into dangerous, uncharted waters.

The fact you're looking at this book says you're ready to join the adventure with the agents of the IAA, and enter a whole new world of discovery.

Ernest Dempsey blends elements from political, pulp, historical, travel, action and adventure, and conspiracy thrillers into a ripping hot, up tempo action story that will keep you pinned to the pages until you have to turn just one more. Each book represents hundreds of hours of research into history, secret societies, ancient cultures, and legends.

These stories read like Indiana Jones, the Goonies, and John Wick combined with Clive Cussler, James Rollins, Steve Berry, and Dan Brown.

Welcome aboard. Enjoy the adventure.

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The Sean Wyatt Series: Books 7-9 Box Set: A Sean Wyatt Archaeological Thriller (Sean Wyatt Adventure Book 3) 04/04/2018

by Ernest Dempsey, Jason Whited, Anne Storer

( 255 )

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Sean Wyatt is back in the third omnibus edition in the USA Today Bestselling series.

This digital box set contains the seventh, eighth, and ninth archaeological thrillers:

The Jerusalem Creed: Sean Wyatt and his sidekick, Tommy Schultz are in search of an ancient Jewish relic that has the power to tell the future. They aren't the only ones searching, however, and if it falls into the wrong hands, it could have catastrophic consequences for entire nations

The Samurai Cipher: At the close of World War II, the allies forced Japan to give up all their weapons, including ancient heirlooms that had been in families for thousands of years. One such weapon was the greatest Samurai sword ever made. Now Sean Wyatt must find it before a power hungry Yakuza lieutenant, or the nation of Japan could fall to its knees.

 The Cairo Vendetta: This prequel goes back in time when Sean Wyatt was still working for Axis in the United States government. He is on a mission in Africa to take down a ruthless warlord who uses children as soldiers and slaves. While there, he learns of another secret that takes him on a journey he never imagined.

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The Fourth Prophecy: A Sean Wyatt Archaeological Thriller (Sean Wyatt Adventure Book 14) 26/10/2017

by Ernest Dempsey, Jason Whited, Anne Storer

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Washington is at a standstill.
It’s not political gridlock that’s paralyzed the capital of the United States this time.
A ruthless killer is assassinating members of Congress, leaving authorities with neither clues nor hope to stop the slaughter. Fear grips the city as the federal government grinds to a halt.
So, where are former government agent Sean Wyatt and his sidekick, Tommy Schultz? They’re thousands of miles away in the middle of the Mexican rain forest, leading a private mission for one of the congresswomen targeted by the murderer.
The congresswoman is convinced ancient documents in her possession hold the keys to a new world—a golden age without murder, scandal, or lust for power.
Sean and Tommy should be so lucky.
In their quest to solve another ancient, deadly series of riddles, Sean and Tommy take on Mexican drug cartels, counterrevolutionary guerrillas, and shady mercenaries—and learn that, yet again, nothing in either the modern or the ancient world is what it appears to be.
In his grittiest thriller yet, Ernest Dempsey again thrusts readers into the heart of the global criminal underworld. Swarmed by spies, shysters, and professional slayers, Dempsey’s vision of international treasure hunting would send even Indiana Jones running for retirement.

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The Cleric's Vault: A Sean Wyatt Archaeological Thriller (The Lost Chambers Trilogy Book 2) 01/01/2014

by Ernest Dempsey, Jason Whited, Anne Storer

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Some things defy our concept of history.

When Father Carlos Crespi died, he left behind a treasure trove of artifacts from all across the ancient world. These artifacts should not have been in the Western Hemisphere.

How did these artifacts from ancient Babylon, Assyrian, Sumerian, and more arrive in the possession of the natives in South American thousands of years ago?

And what other secrets did they hold?

The thrilling sequel to The Secret of the Stones sends former government agent, Sean Wyatt and his sidekick Tommy Schultz from the deserts of the American southwest to the hills and jungles of Ecuador in a perilous race to find the mysterious lost treasure. The treasure is somehow linked to the legendary Lost Chambers of Gold that has remained hidden for thousands of years.

But the chambers hold a deeper secret, one on which an evil mastermind has his sights set.

Along the way, Sean and Tommy find ancient clues that lead the way to the next of the lost chambers, and with a little help from the beautiful Adriana Villa, they may be the first to reach it. The Cleric's Vault is Ernest Dempsey's second book into the genre of thrillers and mysteries, and is one of his best sellers. This story takes the characters across the southwestern United States and into South America on a wild adventure that, if not kept suppressed, could cause major political and financial upheaval.

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JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SEE SOMETHING... DOESN'T MEAN IT ISN'T THERE.

Unimaginable wealth. The authority to command nations. Eternal life.

Maybe the hero humanity needs is actually a monster.

Over two thousand years ago a weapon of untold power vanished in a shipwreck.

Some things defy our concept of history.