Impact
By: Douglas Preston
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780765328809
Subjects: Meteorites; College teachers; Crimes against; Fiction
Description: Wyman Ford is tapped for a secret expedition to Cambodia to locate the source of strange beautiful gemstones that do not appear to be of this world. A brilliant meteor lights up the Maine coast and two young women borrow a boat and set out for a distant island to find the impact crater. A scientist at the National Propulsion Facility discovers an inexplicable source of gamma rays in the outer solar system. He is later found decapitated, the data missing. High-resolution NASA images reveal an unnatural feature hidden in the depths of a crater on mars and it appears to have been activated. Sixty hours and counting.