The Last Oracle - Couverture souple

Rollins, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0752889346 ISBN 13 : 9780752889344

Editeur : Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2008

Synopsis

What if you could bio-engineer the next great world prophet, to scientifically produce the next Buddha, the next Mohammed, or the next Jesus? Would it mark the Second Coming or initiate a chain reaction leading to the end of mankind? A thinktank of world scientists formed during the Cold War has discovered a way to manipulate and enhance autistic children who show savant talents - mathematical geniuses, statistical masterminds, brilliant conceptual artists - but a strange side-effect begins to arise. Before it can be analyzed fully, a rogue group of scientists begin their own secret experimentation with a cadre of the best children. They seek to create a world prophet for the new millennium, one to be manipulated to create a new era of global peace'a peace on their own terms. But such manipulation has grim consequences as a biological meltdown among the children begins to occur - turning the innocent into something frightening. Can Commander Gray Pierce and his elite SIGMA Force stop the experiments before they engineer the extinction of mankind? It will be a race against time to solve a mystery that dates back to the first famous oracle of history - the Oracle of Delphi...

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

James Rollins is the author of nine previous hit novels. An amateur spelunker and scuba enthusiast, he holds a doctorate in veterinary medicine from the University of Missouri. He currently lives and writes in Sacramento, California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0752889346
• ISBN 13: 9780752889344
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible