| Sacred Stone Contributor(s): Cussler, Clive (Author), Dirgo, Craig (Author) |
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ISBN: 0425198480 ISBN-13: 9780425198483 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2004 Annotation: In this second novel of the Oregon Files series, an ancient artifact possessing catastrophic radioactive power is unearthed in Greenland. Caught between two militant factions bent on wholesale slaughter, Captain Juan Cabrillo and his network of spies must fight to protect the stone and prevent the outbreak of World War III. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Sea Stories - Fiction | Thrillers - Espionage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004050206 |
| Series: Oregon Files |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6" W x 8.96" (0.99 lbs) 416 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 124616 Reading Level: 6.4 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 18.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Juan Cabrillo and his CIA-backed Oregon crew must beat opposing factions to a discovery that could prevent World War III in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. In the remote wastes of Greenland, a young scientist has unearthed an artifact hidden in a cave for a millennium: a 50,000 year-old radioactive meteorite known as the Sacred Stone. But the astounding find places him in the crosshairs of two opposing 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 crew must fight to protect the scientist and the Sacred Stone--and prevent the outbreak of World War III... |