Indiana Jones Summary

This book started out with Indiana Jones, an itinerant archeologist who goes on a lot of adventures to find priceless artifacts, is teaching celtic archeology in london when he gets fired for letting his sadness from his recently deceased wife getting in the way of teaching. He goes to Chicago to find a new job teaching when his stay turns transitory fast. Two people named Vladimir and Katrina Zabolotsky tell a church that they have seen Noah’s ark. Aftera caper with some Bolshevik spies they flee chicago but at the last minute Indy and his friend Jack jump with clereity onto the same train at which point out of shock Katrina yells “I see Indy!”
As the train accelerates there is a quick discourse and Vladimir, Indy, and Jack concur they will
all go to photograph the ark together. When they get to istanbul they meet an assailant named Hasan. In their many battles they prove to be very resilient foes with one always coming back to attack again. After an erratic and desultory race for the ark the ark falls of its mountain cradle during an avalanche due to gunfire.
I thought that this book had a plot similar to Raiders Of The Lost Ark.It is similar to Raiders Of The Lost Ark because the artifact is wanted in different ways and two enemy battled ruthlessly for it. The movie’s villain René belloq is as resilient as Hasan in their quests for the artifact. Another similarity is Hasan and Belloq both got to their artifact first but indy intervened and got the artifact.
I can also connect this story to the movie National Treasure. In National Treasure the hero is racing his enemy to find an important treasure. They both have a similar theme of: some things are not meant to be found. In the book the ark is thought to bring the end of the world by Hasan and the villain in national treasure wants a ridiculous amount of money.