Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone

Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone is a 1995 novel by Max McCoy. It is the ninth novel in the Indiana Jones adult series of novels.

Plot introduction
Indiana Jones hunts down an English alchemist, a Renaissance scholar and a stolen manuscript containing the great alchemical secrets of immortality and transmuting base metals to gold. Highly tension raising.

The book was published only in paperback by Bantam Books of New York in April 1995.

Plot summary
The search for wealth and immortality has sent men mad. Now Indiana Jones is called to London to recover an ancient alchemist's manuscript is supposed to contain the formula both for creating gold from lead and also granting eternal life. Certain that a missing British alchemist and an insane Renaissance scholar are involved in the theft; Indy, along with the alchemist's beautiful sister, travels to Rome, and straight into the hands of Mussolini's fascists.

The scholar Sarducci (who appears mad) has stolen the Voynich Manuscript. However the manuscript is also a map, leading readers into the desert and the most ancient and magnificent crypt in the world, where Indiana Jones will either witness an astounding miracle of alchemy, or become the tomb's next inhabitant.

Characters in "Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone"

 * Indiana Jones – the adventurous Archaeologist, protagonist
 * Sarducci – scholar, villain of the piece

Release details

 * 1995, USA, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group ISBN 0-553-56196-0, Pub date ? April 1995, paperback (first edition)

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

 * In 2004 a fan film adaptation was made by Andrew Metzger & Ben Ludlow.