Singularity - Couverture souple

DeSmedt, Bill

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1614756252 ISBN 13 : 9781614756255

Editeur : WordFire Press, 2018

Synopsis

A cosmic collision, a thousand times more powerful and devastating than an atomic bomb, levels an ancient forest in Siberia. A hundred years of international scientific investigation are yet to reveal the cause.

June 30th, 1908 — In the trackless wastes of Siberia’s remote Tunguska river basin, the most devastating cosmic collision ever recorded flattens hundreds of square miles of ancient forest with a blast a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Yet, after more than a hundred years of international scientific investigation, the cause of the cataclysm remains shrouded in mystery.

Maverick astrophysicist Jack Adler thinks he’s fingered the culprit: the impact with the earth of a submicroscopic black hole, smaller than an atom, more massive than a mountain, older than the stars. What’s more, Jack believes that this fantastic object is still down there, deep inside the Earth, burrowing through its mantle in an ever-decaying orbit that will end only when it has devoured the entire planet. Small wonder if the Russians refer to the voracious black hole by their word for vampire — Vurdalak.
Rookie secret agent Marianna Bonaventure is tracking three missing Russian scientists suspected of involvement in weapons of mass destruction research. The trail leads her to the luxurious megayacht Rusalka, floating corporate headquarters of billionaire Russian industrialist Arkady Grishin. Determined to prove herself, Marianna creates an elaborate ruse in order to infiltrate the enormous vessel — a dangerous gambit that requires the coerced cooperation of a rather special civilian ...

Jonathan Knox is one of the country’s most sought-after management consultants; his knack for intuiting hidden relationships among seemingly disparate events serves his Fortune-50 clients well. But when Marianna compels the reluctant Knox to join her undercover on Rusalka, he must grapple with puzzles of a wholly different order of magnitude.

Together, these three must battle a globe-spanning conspiracy intent upon capturing Vurdalak and exploiting its awesome power, a power that can transform the world — or end it.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bill DeSmedt's professional life thus far has been a superposition of orthogonal career paths - system designer/developer, artificial intelligence researcher/practitioner, management/technical consultant, ontologist/knowledge engineer, husband/father/lover, omnivorous reader with a soft spot for science fiction and science non-fiction, and now -saints preserve us! - technothriller author.The resulting sum over histories has spawned the Archon Sequence, consisting so far of the award-winning Singularity and Dualism, with Triploidy on the launch pad. Prior to these first forays into speculative fiction, Bill's writing credits have included an unconventional attempt to marry the fields of cognitive psychology and software system design.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WordFire Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1614756252
• ISBN 13: 9781614756255
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 458
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg