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Du Brul, Jack B.

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ISBN 10 : 0525948821 ISBN 13 : 9780525948827

Editeur : Dutton Books, 2006

Synopsis

Seventy years after a murderous madman aboard the doomed Hindenburg tosses out a safe containing a dangerous secret, mining engineer Philip Mercer teams up with field researcher Cali Stone to figure out why a central African village is experiencing high rates of cancer. By the author of Charon's Landing.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

New Jersey, 1937: A homicidal madman bears a safe holding a terrible secret that is thought lost when fiery fate intervenes. Decades later, the discovery of that secret is about to threaten the world once more....

Mining engineer Philip Mercer is in the war-torn Central African Republic searching for precious metal. There, he meets Cali Stone, a field researcher for the CDC who is investigating why a certain village suffers from one of the highest rates of cancer in the world-a fact that intrigues Mercer. Once back in the states, Mercer's search for answers leads him to a long-lost safe and a cryptic note inside that may reveal a three thousand year-old deception...

Biographie de l'auteur

Jack Du Brul is a graduate of the Westminster School and George Washington University. Trying to add as much adventure to his life as he does to his novels, Du Brul has climbed Masada at noon, swam in the Arctic Ocean off Point Barrow, explored war-torn Eritrea, camped in Greenland, and was gnawed on by piranhas in the Amazon River. He collects zeppelin memorabilia and when not writing or traveling (25 countries and counting), he can be found in a favorite chair with a book and a brandy. Jack Du Brul lives in Burlington, Vermont.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dutton Books
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0525948821
• ISBN 13: 9780525948827
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 359
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• Personne responsable: non disponible