| Sacred Stone Contributor(s): Cussler, Clive (Author), Dirgo, Craig (Author) |
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ISBN: 0425201023 ISBN-13: 9780425201022 Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons OUR PRICE: $9.89 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: March 2008 Annotation: A power that could destroy the world A prize that men will kill to possess Juan Cabrillo must find it first... Two opposing groups seek a 50,000-year-old radioactive meteorite known as the Sacred Stone. Muslim extremists have stolen a nuclear device and need the stone to give them the power to vaporize any city in the west. A megalomaniacal industrialist leads a group seeking to carry out the utter annihilation of Islam itself. And caught between the two militant factions is Juan Cabrillo and his crew, who must do whatever they can to stop the impending doom... |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Thrillers - Espionage - Fiction | Sea Stories |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Oregon Files |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 5.78" W x 7.52" (0.65 lbs) 528 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... |