The Lightning Stones: A Novel (Philip Mercer)

ISBN: 0307454797

Author: Du Brul, Jack

Condition: New

Geologist and adventurer Philip Mercer is visiting an old friend whos working far down in Minnesotas Leister Deep Mine-but he arrives too late to save Abe Jacobs and his climate-research team from a shocking, brutal attack. Mercer vows to seek revenge as well as answers, hoping to pick up Jacobss search for a cache of the rare crystals known as lightning stones-rumored to have been aboard Amelia Earharts plane when it vanished in 1937.From a harrowing close call in the Midwestern U.S. to a nailbiting showdown in the rugged mountains of Afghanistan, to a remote island in the middle of the Pacific, Mercer must race to stay ahead of a team of highly-trained assassins-and to figure out if hes chasing a rare scientific discovery, or merely a historical fairy tale.