Immortal
A gripping, high-concept, high-octane thriller
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- 6,49 €
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- 6,49 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
'Get the cameras rolling - Indiana Jones meets Alien. What a combination of mystery, suspense, and unspeakable horror. I loved it!' R.L. Stine
While carrying out an autopsy on a body recently brought into a morgue in Santa Fe, county coroner Alexis Cruz makes a surprising discovery. Lodged in the dead man's femur is a musket ball which, carbon-dating reveals, was fired some 200 years earlier in the American Civil War.
But before she can notify the authorities, Alexis disappears.
The DIA call in Ethan Warner and his partner, Nicola Lopez, to find the missing coroner. But the closer they come to unlocking the terrifying truth, the nearer they unknowingly bring a warped and dangerous individual to achieving a catastrophic goal.
'Earth-shattering intrigue, hyperdrive action and a desperate race to save humanity, cranked up to the max with scarily realistic science and apocalyptic religion thrown in for good measure . . . a major new talent has hit the mystery thriller scene' Scott Mariani, bestselling author of The Lost Relic
'The fossilised remains of a 7,000-year-old creature dug from the sands of the Negev Desert in Israel become the bones of contention in Dean Crawford's fast-paced debut thriller... The book neatly threads together a wild variety of plotlines' Wall Street Journal
`Partly mythical read, part thriller this pacy tale is a page turner guaranteed to keep you up late' Sun
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
British author Crawford's second speculative thriller featuring Ethan Warner, with its cleverly introduced premise, improves on his debut, 2011's Covenant. When New Mexico police respond to a report of a shooting on the Santa Fe Trail, they find the gunman, Hiram Conley, dressed in a ragged Civil War era Union uniform and armed with a musket. Conley's wounded victim, Tyler Willis, cries, "Don't kill him! He's too old to die," just before the police shoot Conley in self-defense. The autopsy bears out Willis's cryptic assessment. The body has mummified overnight and bears other traces indicating that Conley was born long before his claimed birth year of 1940. After the corpse and the ME who studied it disappear, the matter comes to the attention of Warner and his partner, Nicola Lopez, bail bondsmen recruited by the Defense Intelligence Agency to investigate. Assured pacing and plotting make up for underdeveloped characters.
