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Impact / Douglas Preston.
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.
When Wyman Ford is called in to investigate the mysterious exit hole of a meteorite that amazingly passed straight through the earth, what he finds defies all that we know about our universe. There is an ancient structure buried deep in Voltaire Crater on Deimos, one of Mars' moons. Sticking up from the structure is the unmistakable outline of a gun. It was built to monitor the solar system and destroy any intelligent life powerful enough to challenge it - but built by whom? A quick calculation of the orbit of Mars indicates that Deimos Crater will once again point at the earth in sixty hours. The final shot - the one that will destroy the earth - will come then. The end-game is at hand. Wyman Ford and a team of scientists must figure out how to destroy the alien doomsday weapon in the next sixty hours. Their only tools are what is already in orbit around Mars - the Orbiter, the Mars lander on the surface, and several smaller satellites orbiting the Red Planet. None of them carry anything remotely resembling a weapon. Sixty hours and counting.
Record details
- ISBN: 0765317680
- ISBN: 9780765317681 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780765356970 (mass market pbk.)
- Physical Description: 364 p. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Forge, 2010, c2009.
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| General Note: | "A Tom Doherty Associates book." |
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| Subject: | College teachers > Crimes against > Fiction. Aliens > Fiction Secrets > Fiction Meteorites > Fiction Precious stones > Fiction. Meteorites > Fiction. Gamma ray sources > Fiction. Mars (Planet) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Suspense fiction. Adventure fiction. Science fiction. Adventure fiction. Science fiction. |
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