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 Sacred Stone - Clive Cussler
 Sacred Stone - Clive Cussler ... hidden in a cave for a millennium: a 50,000 year-old meteorite known as the Sacred Stone - which he soon discovers possesses potentially catastrophic radioactive power. But the astounding find places him in the crosshairs of two opposing terrorist groups who seek the stone for themselves. One is a group of Muslim extremists who have stolen a nuclear device. With the power of the meteorite, they could vaporize any city in the west. The other group is led by a megalomaniacal industrialist who seeks to carry out the utter annihilation of Islam itself. Caught between two militant factions bent on wholesale slaughter, Juan Cabrillo and his ship of high-tech mercenaries known as the Corporation must fight to protect the scientist and the Sacred Stone - and prevent the outbreak of World War III.Newest Review: ... world of Cussler's characters and so decided to take the plunge for the second time. The scope of the book was a little ... more ... different, rather than dealing with Ocean studies, The Corporation are a team of former Special Forces operatives who undertake special missions for the CIA.
With this in mind it sets them apart from Cussler's other novels, which both focus on a government agency going by the name of NUMA. As this novel takes on a slightly different format it makes the characters and story behave a little differently. There is a definitive bad guy that Cabrillo and his team are trying to catch. The threat of a nuclear strike keeps you tur...more |
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Sacred Stone - Clive Cussler: The Search For A Sacred Stone (744 words)
by - written on 03/08/07 (Very useful, 85 readings)
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When a scientist stumbles across the result of his lifetimes work in the remote landscape of Greenland he couldn't be happier. The hard work he has put in and funding he had received all seem worth it. Little does he know however that his discovery has a lot more to it than meets the eye. In fact it means he is caught in a massive fight to see who can get it from him first, either the man who financed his dig and wants to wipe out Islam or a terrorist group hell bent on unleashing a nuclear weapon in London. His life is at risk, along with the lives of millions more and it's up to Juan Cabrillo and the Corporation to try and save the millions of innocent ... Read the complete review
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