Pandora's Temple
Autor Jon Landen Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 noi 2012
Vezi toate premiile Carte premiată
Thriller Awards (2013)
What if Pandora’s Box were real? Blaine McCracken finds himself facing this very question—and the greatest threat to mankind—in his long-awaited return to the page
Rogue special-operations agent McCracken has never been shy about answering the call, and this time it comes in the aftermath of a deepwater oil rig disaster that claims the life of a onetime member of his commando unit. The remnants of the rig and its missing crew lead him to the inescapable conclusion that one of the most mysterious and deadly forces in the universe is to blame: dark matter, both a limitless source of potential energy and an unimaginably destructive weapon.
Joining forces again with his trusty sidekick Johnny Wareagle, McCracken races to stop two deadly enemies who want the dark matter at all costs. A powerful energy magnate and the leader of a Japanese doomsday cult both seek the ultimate prize for their own nefarious reasons, and McCracken and Wareagle’s mission to defeat them takes the duo on a nonstop journey across the world and thousands of years into the past where the truth lies in the ancient Pandora’s Temple, built to safeguard the world’s most powerful weapon.
McCracken’s only hope to save the world is to find the mythical temple. Along the way, he and Wareagle find themselves up against Mexican drug gangs, killer robots, an army of professional assassins, and a legendary sea monster. The hero of nine previous bestselling thrillers, McCracken is used to the odds being stacked against him, but this time the stakes have never been higher.
This book features an illustrated biography of Jon Land including rare images from the author’s personal collection.
Preț: 130.02 lei
Nou
Puncte Express: 195
Preț estimativ în valută:
24.88€ • 26.25$ • 20.74£
24.88€ • 26.25$ • 20.74£
Carte disponibilă
Livrare economică 13-27 decembrie
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781453224656
ISBN-10: 1453224653
Pagini: 390
Dimensiuni: 142 x 212 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: Open Road E-Riginal
ISBN-10: 1453224653
Pagini: 390
Dimensiuni: 142 x 212 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: Open Road E-Riginal
Notă biografică
Since The Doomsday Spiral was published in 1983, Jon Land has written more than thirty novels. He began his career as a novelist at Brown University, where he talked the faculty into accepting a technothriller as his honors thesis. His first series titles were the Blaine McCracken novels, but it was his Ben and Danielle series featuring a Detroit cop and an Israeli detective who chase murderers in the Holy Land that brought him into prominence in the thriller community. Land has also written a series featuring Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong—a female hero in a genre which, Land has said, has too few of them. The first three books in the series—Strong Enough to Die (2009), Strong Justice (2010), and Strong at the Break (2011)—have all garnered critical praise, with Strong Justice being named a Top Thriller of the Year by Library Journal and runner-up for Best Novel of the Year by the New England Book Festival. Land’s most recent work is Pandora’s Temple (2012), the latest in the Blaine McCracken series. He currently lives in Providence.
Premii
- Thriller Awards Nominee, 2013