Cosmosis
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- 18,99 €
Description de l’éditeur
Jace Kelton and Madison Marro are on a parallel quest for answers—answers that others have sought but not survived to tell.
Tracking his father’s alleged killer to a doomed Gulf of Mexico oil rig sinking in a hurricane, Jace discovers a bizarre connection with Maddy: both of their parents played pivotal roles in the search for a source of limitless energy to replace fossil fuels. After her only living relative is murdered as part of a cover-up, Maddy is forced to complete her family’s powerful quest for sustainable resources. This family mission pulls Maddy and Jace into a whirlwind race against a ruthless mercenary task force that’s killing everyone in its way to get there first.
The relentless competition for energy supremacy crosses continents, touching on legendary mysteries of ancient peoples and enigmatic landmarks, including the Bermuda Triangle, Easter Island, the Pyramids of Giza, and the Nazca Plain. Together, Jace and Maddy explore these wonders of the past that may reveal the answers they've been seeking. With an overwhelming killing force on their heels, they stumble upon a mystical interstellar connection between the energy needs of Earth and the future of all humankind. Time is quickly running out for Jace and Maddy to act—or else a catastrophe more frightening than they could ever dream will devastate the entire globe.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Rey (Day of the Dove) hits most of the genre clich s in this tepid thriller. A dramatic prologue, set in 1993, details the murder of NASA's Arthur Kelton in Alabama by an unnamed killer who was seeking photographs from a Mars mission. In the present, Kelton's insurance safety consultant son, Jace, is obsessed with learning the truth about his father's death, which may be linked to speculation that the government suppressed the truth about what was found on the red planet. Eventually, Jace crosses paths with high-cheek-boned country girl Madison Marro, whose scientist uncle Jace attempted to meet at a conference in Vancouver, B.C. Unfortunately, someone fatally attacked the uncle, but Jace was able to catch his dying words: "Tell Maddy NASA the stone." Once Madison gets past her initial belief that Jace killed her uncle, their relationship develops exactly as most readers will expect. Pedestrian prose doesn't help (e.g., "Like enraged Titans, the sea and the wind had declared war on the oil rig").
