Seven Wonders

This book by Ben Mezrich revolves around a secret society of Amazons--yep those warrior women of legend. They are, apparently, fairly ruthless in keeping their existence secret, AND they seem to have endless financial resources to achieve that. The protagonists, a "field anthropologist" named Jack Grady, and a botanist, Sloane Costa, are brought together by their own individual discoveries and spurred on by the murder of Jack's brother, a reclusive computer genius who inadvertently discovered a connection between the seven ancient wonders of the world and the more modern seven wonders of the world. Jack and Sloane begin to follow the clues that lead them from Christ the Redeemer to each of the remaining architectural wonders in order to complete the puzzle--if they don't get killed first. For deadly Amazon assassins seem to always be barely one step behind them on their dizzying global itinerary.
The ending was predictable, the editing errors were annoying, and the characters were only mildly interesting, so overall this was a disappointment in spite of the intriguing premise for the plot. Kirkus gives it a less-than-flattering review, as did the Boston Globe. Mezrich has written over a dozen books that seem about equally split between SF-fantasy and "highly addictive genre of nonfiction, chronicling the amazing stories of young geniuses making tons of money on the edge of impossibility, ethics, and morality" (from the author's website), including two #1 NYT bestsellers that were made into movies (The Accidental Billionaire became The Social Network, and his Bringing Down the House became the movie 21) Several of his other books, including Seven Wonders, have been optioned for films. I may try one more book from the library...