Sacred Stone
- Kategoria:
- kryminał, sensacja, thriller
- Cykl:
- Oregon (tom 2)
- Wydawnictwo:
- Penguin Books
- Data wydania:
- 2005-01-01
- Data 1. wydania:
- 2005-01-01
- Liczba stron:
- 406
- Czas czytania
- 6 godz. 46 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 0141022485
In the remote wastes of Greenland, a young scientist has unearthed an artifact hidden in a cave for a millennium: a 50,000-year-old meteorite known as the Sacred Stone – which he soon discovers possesses potentially catastrophic radioactive power. But the astounding find places him in the cross-hairs of two opposing terrorist groups who seek the stone for themselves.
One is a group of Muslim extremists who have stolen a nuclear device. With the power of the meteorite, they could vaporize any city in the West. The other group is led by a megalomaniacal industrialist who seeks to carry out the utter annihilation of Islam itself.
Caught between two militant factions bent on wholesale slaughter, Juan Cabrillo and his ship of high-tech mercenaries known as the Corporation must fight to protect the scientist and the Sacred Stone – and prevent the outbreak of World War III…