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Random House
August 2012
On Sale: August 7, 2012
336 pages
ISBN: 0385341407
EAN: 9780385341400
Kindle: B007SGLZD0
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Science Fiction
For decades, December 21, 2012, has been a touchstone for
doomsayers worldwide. It is the date, they claim, when the
ancient Maya calendar predicts the world will end.
In Los Angeles, two weeks before, all is calm. Dr. Gabriel
Stanton takes his usual morning bike ride, drops off the dog
with his ex-wife, and heads to the lab where he studies
incurable prion diseases for the CDC. His first phone call
is from a hospital resident who has an urgent case she
thinks he needs to see. Meanwhile, Chel Manu, a Guatemalan
American researcher at the Getty Museum, is interrupted by a
desperate, unwelcome visitor from the black market
antiquities trade who thrusts a duffel bag into her hands.
By the end of the day, Stanton, the foremost expert on some
of the rarest infections in the world, is grappling with a
patient whose every symptom confounds and terrifies him. And
Chel, the brightest young star in the field of Maya studies,
has possession of an illegal artifact that has miraculously
survived the centuries intact: a priceless codex from a lost
city of her ancestors. This extraordinary record, written in
secret by a royal scribe, seems to hold the answer to her
life’s work and to one of history’s great riddles: why the
Maya kingdoms vanished overnight. Suddenly it seems that our
own civilization might suffer this same fate.
With only days remaining until December 21, 2012, Stanton
and Chel must join forces before time runs out.
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