Pandora's Curse |
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Authors: | Du Brul, Jack |
Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
BISAC/Subject: | FIC030000, FIC050000, FIC002000 |
ISBN: | 9781101100165, Related ISBNs: 0451409639, 1101100168, 9780451409638, 9781101100165 |
Classification: | Fiction |
Number of pages: | 480, |
Audience: | General/trade |
In the unforgiving wastes of Greenland, geologist Philip Mercer uncovers a long-abandoned U.S. Army base buried under the iceand a long-dead body still hot with radiation. But before Mercer and his colleague, the seductive Dr. Anika Klein, can investigate further, a flash fire engulfs the base. Ordered to evacuate, their plane is forced to land when a bomb is discovered on board, and they must seek shelter from the murderous weather in a hidden ice cavern.
That’s where they learn the startling truth. A powerful German corporation has launched an operation to destroy evidence of its Nazi past. But one of the corporate mercenaries knows what’s inside the Pandora’s boxes, and he plans to hold the entire world hostageunless Mercer can find a way to stop him…
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