This is it - Earthcore, by Scott Sigler.
I walk my two dogs - Holly and Rebus - every morning, and as I live near Glasgow that usually means walking in the rain.
So I do whatever I can to take my mind off the weather (the walking boot and gaiters help), and over the last couple of weeks I've been listening to Earthcore.
It's a great read listen. Here's the summary:
Deep below a desolate Utah mountain lays the largest platinum deposit
ever discovered. A billion-dollar find, it waits for any company that
can drill a world's record, three-mile-deep mine shaft.
EarthCore is the company with the technology, the resources and the
guts to go after the mother lode. Young executive Connell Kirkland is
the company's driving force, pushing himself and those around him to
uncover the massive treasure.
But Kirkland and EarthCore are not the first to find this treasure. The
mountain's history reveals two centuries of disappearances, murder, and
insanity.
The discovery of ancient platinum knives, razor-sharp despite lying
untouched for 1,000 years, reveals evidence of an ancient culture. If
the artifacts are genuine, they show a pre-historic empire that once
spanned from the Southern tip of South America all the way up through
the American Southwest.
Wealth and fame lie under that Utah mountain, but at three miles below
the surface, where the rocks are so hot they burn bare skin, something
has been waiting for centuries. Waiting ... and guarding. Kirkland and
EarthCore are about to find out first-hand why this treasure has never
been unearthed.
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