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A gripping, action-packed thriller that treks from the Galapagos Islands, to jungles of South America, to the icy birth-place of the Inca people. A missing aircraft. An unstable cargo. A devastating weapon. In a race they cannot lose, the NUMA team will risk everything to stop the world´s most dazzling research from being the very thing that destroys it. The fate of humanity depends on them.

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Clive Cussler the UK NO. 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR introduces yet another action-packed adventure to the gripping NUMA Files series . . .

When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, NUMA operatives Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly contest to locate the fallen machine.

Russia and China covet the radical technology, but the United States worries about a darker problem. They know what others don´t-that the X-37 is carrying a dangerous secret, a payload of exotic matter, extracted from the upper reaches of the atmosphere and stored at a temperature near absolute zero.

As long as it remains frozen, the cargo is inert, but if it thaws, it will unleash a catastrophe of nearly unthinkable proportions.

From the Galapagos Islands to the jungles of South America to an icy mountain lake many believe to be the birthplace of the Inca, the entire NUMA team will risk everything in an effort to avert disaster . . . will they get caught in a race that no one can win?

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Cussler is hard to beat Daily Mail

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Brown, Graham
Graham Brown is the author of Black Rain and Black Sun, and the co-author with Cussler of Devil´s Gate, The Storm, Zero Hour, Ghost Ship, The Pharaoh´s Secret, Nighthawk and The Rising Sea. A pilot and an attorney, he lives in Arizona.

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