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A mysterious manuscript discovered in the tomb of Charlemagne sends Cotton Malone on a perilous international quest that takes him and twin sisters with their own agenda from an ancient German cathedral to the harsh, unforgiving world of Antarctica in pursuit of the truth about the death of his father on a classified sub mission beneath Antarctica.… (mais)
Una civilización desconocida enterrada bajo el hielo de la Antártida esconde un misterio que Carlomagno dejó escrito. Un secreto revelador y de una gran importancia para la humanidad está a punto de ser descubierto... Cotton Malone intenta descubrir la verdad sobre su padre, que murió en un submarino que se perdió en el Antártida en los años 70. Pronto aparecen otros involucrados en la búsqueda: dos gemelas alemanas y un aliado del presidente de los EE.UU. Pero cada uno de ellos tiene sus propios motivos. Después de investigar pistas en un par de iglesias antiguas en Alemania y Francia descubren pruebas de una civilización desconocida y muy avanzada que vivía en la Antártida antes de que desapareciera cubierta por el hielo.
Cotton Malone gets caught up in unraveling the mysterious disappearance/death of his father and the Navy's cover-up. He gets involved with a crazy German family with warring twin girls and a psychotic mother pitting the two against each other while Washington intrigue has Stephanie Nelle working certain angles of the lost civilization theme. A bit reminiscent of a Clive Cussler/Dirk Pitt novel. ( )
A reasonably good action thriller, but seems to get bogged down a bit in all the political machinations. A little hard to follow with a lot going on and a lot of characters.
I appreciate Steve Berry's usual practice of spending a few pages at the end of the book to separate fact from fiction. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Study the past, if you would divine the future. --Confucius
The Ancient Masters were subtle, mysterious, profound, responsive. The depth of their knowledge is unfathomable. Because it is unfathomable, all we can do is describe their appearance. Watchful, like men crossing a winter stream. Alert, like men aware of danger. Courteous, like visiting guests. Yielding like ice about to melt. Simple, like uncarved blocks of wood. -- Lao-Tzu (604 BCE)
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind. -- Proverbs 11:29
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
For Pam Ahearn and Mark Tavani, Dream makers
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November 1971 The alarm sounded and Forrest Malone came alert.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
But something had roused him. A sound. Part of the dream he'd been having, yet again. He heard it again. Three squeaks in quick succession. His building was seventeenth century, completely remodeled a few months ago after being firebombed. Afterward, the new wooden risers from the second to the third floor always announced themselves in a precise order, like keys on a piano. Which meant someone was there. He reached beneath the bed and found the rucksack he always kept ready -- a habit from his Magella Billet days. Inside, his right hand gripped the Beretta automatic, a round already chambered. He crept from the bedroom.
A mysterious manuscript discovered in the tomb of Charlemagne sends Cotton Malone on a perilous international quest that takes him and twin sisters with their own agenda from an ancient German cathedral to the harsh, unforgiving world of Antarctica in pursuit of the truth about the death of his father on a classified sub mission beneath Antarctica.
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