Bøger af David Mayo

During the mid-1940s, an anomalous incident occurs in the southwest United States which starts a chain of events that will explode eighty years later.Clayton Atwood is an academic dilettante, bouncing between college courses, unconcerned with scholastic advancement or degrees. Orphaned by what he assumed was his parents' accidental death, he is raised by his eccentric uncle. His plans for a carefree trip to Europe are interrupted by a note taped to his front door that changes not only his life, but the world's future.In an unassuming building adjacent to Rice University in Houston, Atwood learns that all he knew of his past is wrong when he becomes the center of an astounding scientific project that will help all mankind. But the project inadvertently places one peaceful alien civilization in jeopardy, and attracts genocidal hatred and retribution from another, while making Atwood the target of a ruthless assassin. Atwood finds himself to be humanity's secret weapon in the fight for survival. At a secret Nevada military base, the fate of three civilizations hangs in the balance.

Since ancient Sumer it has been imprisoned. They were desperate to prevent its escape.Former Vatican archivist Gwendolyn Myers knew of the legend, but she never expected to discover the truth. The elderly scholar's curiosity proved fateful.Gwendolyn's niece, Anjanette, works as a nurse in Houston where she notices strange similarities in horrifically injured ER arrivals. After Anjanette and her boyfriend, Macon move into her aunt's house, the horrors follow them home and begin spreading throughout the neighborhood and beyond.Why does Macon suddenly develop an overriding interest in true-mirrors and psychomanteums that he can't quite explain?Can Anjanette accept the amazing truth of her birthright?There is something indescribable starving for blood and terror. A seemingly unstoppable evil has been unleashed that a small group, led by Anjanette, must desperately try to confront.