Valley of the Scorpion

ISBN: 1482060647

Author: William Yancey Brown

Condition: New

Product Description The Lewis family, Maggie, Sam, and their two pre-teen daughters Laura and Abby, goes on a vacation to a coral reef archipelago off the Yucatan peninsula. Hiking, they enter a Mayan temple and encounter an evil, extraterrestrial creature in the form of an immense scorpion. The creature was accidentally formed when an advanced civilization learned how to isolate and set aside the dark emotions that haunted its members. The creature scatters each Lewis to a different place and time on Earth, and each makes her way back to reunite and confront the creature. Each is stalked in her journey by an offspring of the scorpion and each is assisted by an ally whose past is intertwined with the creature. At the end, they battle the scorpion and her hoard in the valley reached through the temple where she has lived for eons. About the Author Bill Brown is a scientist and lawyer, and he is currently a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He was born in Artesia, California, and is a graduate of the Escola Americana do Recife, University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins University, University of Hawaii (PhD Zoology), and Harvard Law School (JD). Brown's former positions include Science Advisor to Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, President & CEO of the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, President & CEO of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, and President & CEO of the Bishop Museum in Hawaii. Brown is married to Mary McLeod, who is the Acting Legal Advisor of the Department of State, and they have two daughters, Julia and Emma Brown. He lives in Washington, DC.