Synopses & Reviews
Wyman Ford is tapped for a secret expedition to Cambodia... to locate the source of strangely beautiful gemstones that do not appear to be of this world.
A brilliant meteor lights up the Maine coast... and two young women borrow a boat and set out for a distant island to find the impact crater.
A scientist at the National Propulsion Facility discovers an inexplicable source of gamma rays in the outer Solar System. He is found decapitated, the data missing.
High resolution NASA images reveal an unnatural feature hidden in the depths of a crater on Mars... and it appears to have been activated.
Sixty hours and counting.
Review
"Preston has done it again. The thriller elements mix well with the science aspects of the story, and the author makes even the hard-to-grasp concepts easy to understand." Library Journal
Review
"A brilliantly executed thriller — exciting, fascinating, and thought-provoking.... Wild and wonderful reading fun! A highly original and yet eerily plausible premise." Whitley Strieber, New York Times bestselling author of Critical Mass
Review
"Brilliant...full of huge ideas, but intensely human, too, and intensely suspenseful." Lee Child
Synopsis
Wyman Ford is tapped for a secret expedition to Cambodia... to locate the source of strangely beautiful gemstones that do not appear to be of this world.
A brilliant meteor lights up the Maine coast... and two young women borrow a boat and set out for a distant island to find the impact crater.
A scientist at the National Propulsion Facility discovers an inexplicable source of gamma rays in the outer Solar System. He is found decapitated, the data missing.
High resolution NASA images reveal an unnatural feature hidden in the depths of a crater on Mars... and it appears to have been activated.
Sixty hours and counting.
Synopsis
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Blasphemy comes an apocalyptic thriller in the tradition of The Andromeda Strain. "An unusually alarming and thoughtful thriller...clever and terrifying." Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
Douglas Preston is the co-author with Lincoln Child of a bestselling thriller/adventure series. He also writes novels and nonfiction books of his own and is a frequent contributor to magazines like National Geographic, the New Yorker, Natural History, Smithsonian, Harper's, and Travel & Leisure.