I love good Science Fiction, good adventure, good mystery and good romance, and THE FIND delivers all of these plus more. Political commentary I can agree with, spiritual concepts that challenge my thinking to new levels, all in a rousing tale that’s lots of fun to read.

Pick up the book and get ready to stay up the whole night reading.

When Megan Eastwood and her mentor, Dr. Jensen Reinhardt, are missing from an archeological excavation in the Grand Canyon and the rest of the crew are found murdered, authorities wrongfully blame them for the mass murders. A magazine photographer, Bruce Brackin, pokes holes in the FBI news coverage and decides to seek the truth of the matter for a popular magazine for which he’s freelancing.

Eastwood surfaces only to find she’s wanted for murder, so she goes into hiding and pursues Brackin to talk him into helping her.

From this exciting beginning, The Find just gets better and better. The author weaves an unbelievable tale of Ancient Wisdom, Quantum Physics and the New World Order into such a well-constructed plot that I suspended my disbelief, taking his tale as absolute truth.

This author is smart! Not only does he know the locale of the Grand Canyon and describe it vividly, he is also almost “geeky” in his knowledge of high technology. He’s also great at characterization, dialogue, budding romance…and his pacing is spot on! He grabbed me from page one and never let go.

This mesmerizing book is complex–with so many twists and turns that I kept wondering how the heck Eastwood and Brackin were going to get out of that horrendous situation–but it had a very satisfactory ending. The Find screams for a sequel. I certainly hope James J. Valko writes one.

Meanwhile, he will soon have another book out; this one is a love story titled “Ironwood.” I look forward to reading it and anything else Valko writes.

Amazon top reviewer and Midwest Book reviewer

The controversy in this story grabbed my attention but then the plot made it a great read. As a columnist for the Vail Daily in Vail Colorado, I know what good writing is. This is great writing.

Valko tackles the subject of an artifact being discovered that is millions of years old, indicating that intelligent life may have existed on this planet that long ago. In The Find, he even tells us where we can learn more about actual archeological finds that are millions of years old, from a book called Forbidden Archeology by Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson. Valko also describes Egyptian artifacts having been discovered in the Grand Canyon at one time. I was so intrigued by this that I went online and discovered that an Arizona newspaper actually did report such artifacts being found at the turn of the last century. Valko also speculates on what the true nature of “reality” is. An investigation into quantum physics will tell you that these aren’t solely Valko’s ideas at all, but that many, many scientists hold the view of reality that he describes in his book.

Besides being a page-turner, I liked The Find because I felt I was learning some fascinating facts I had not known before. Although his writing style isn’t like Michael Crichton’s, The Find is similar to many of Crichton’s books, in that reading it is a learning experience–a journey into today’s unknown, which may just be tomorrow’s reality. I suspect that Valko did far more research in writing this book than one might suspect. He did a good job stringing the “facts” together to make an engaging story.