I had been looking forward to reading this book due to the combination of the cover art and the synopsis firing up my imagination, and to a reasonable extent it lived up to what I expected. 

The story could be described as Indiana Jones meets Clash of the Titans, sprinkled with a bit of Doctor Who. There are two main characters who we follow, one being an archaeologist, while the other seems to be the embodiment of all the action figures played by Arnold Schwarzenegger but wrapped up in the persona of Crocodile Dundee.

It's a very entertaining fast-paced read, as the characters escape from one life-threatening predicament, only to land in yet another, as they encounter beings from Greek mythology and travel between the realms of Hades, Tartarus and Olympus.

It's a fun book, that would probably make an excellent action movie with its numerous mythological figures and action pieces, and as such there are a few times that the internal logic of the story becomes torturously strained, at which point it's best just to stop thinking and enjoy the ride.