The 13th Power
by Terry Wright
The Most Dangerous Quest of All
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Today, American and European scientists are using bigger and faster particle accelerators to smash atoms into smaller and smaller pieces. They are looking for the Higgs boson, the particle that gives matter mass, the "God Particle". What if they find it?
Ray Crawford, a nuclear physicist frustrated with obscurity and elusive fame, agrees to conduct the 13th Power experiments at Solartech Labs in Simi Valley, California. At stake: the technology for STAR WARS, a particle beam of unimaginable power. The Ark will stop at nothing to get it, including mass murder. Ray's place in history is close at hand when his estranged daughter returns after 19 years, forcing him to reassess his priorities. It will take all his skill as a scientist to save the world from his ambition and all his love as a father to save Lisa from his past.
MEET BAD GUY #1:
Dr. Curtis, a rich eccentric with a lust for gold, wants the 13th Power for his own financial gain. He has taken control of Solartech Labs, a hi-tech research and development company, which he acquired in a scandalous corporate takeover. But Curtis is a fraud. His real name is Melvin Anderson, an ex-archeologist and notorious grave robber wanted by the Malaysian authorities. His risk nothing--gain nothing philosophy is about to put the entire world on the brink of oblivion.
MEET BAD GUY #2:
The President has given The Ark an assignment: fulfill Presidential Directive Number 119, get the technology for STAR WARS, at all costs. In the true fashion of government bungling, The Ark goes about his task ruthlessly, leaving dead bodies in his wake. Only one man can stop him, but time is running out.
MEET THE GOOD GUY:
Dr. Janis Mackey is a prominent mathematician at the University of Colorado. He's got serious money problems. His mother is laid up in an expensive nursing home, which has drained him financially, forcing him to live in a dumpy apartment and drive a dilapidated Subaru. As luck would have it, he's just received a promotion, complete with salary freeze. Would he be inclined to accept a generous offer from a wealthy benefactor who wants the impossible?
MEET THE GIRL:
Twenty-five-year-old Lisa is moody, sometimes to the point of childish, other times sensual and alluring, often angry and vengeful. She displays all the classic symptoms of the Abandon Child Syndrome. Where has she been for the last nineteen years? Why has she been gone? Will she ever forgive her father?
The 13th Power is a fast-paced, action-packed thriller that will keep you turning pages to the very end.
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