Eye of Faith by brent ladd

The Eye of Faith – After walking away from a full-ride at Harvard’s prestigious Radcliffe Institute, Cable Janson finds himself enamored with traveling the world and the people and places it holds, even when it lands him in trouble.
He’s been beaten up in a street brawl in Prague, blessed by a monk in Bhutan, slept next to a camel in the Sahara, robbed twice in Istanbul, and inspired at the summit of Kilimanjaro, but his greatest adventure yet begins much closer to home.
The unexpected death of Cable’s father catapults him into a globe-hopping quest and a do-or-die race to unravel an ancient riddle, outsmart a greedy black-market antiquities dealer, and outrun a hard-core terrorist.