| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780449002414 | | Publisher: Fawcett Crest | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 30350777 | | Item#: RLP3RF | | Dimensions (in Inches) 7H x 4.5L x 1.25T |
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| | | Beyond the sparkling Hawaiian beaches, masked by the deceptive beauty of the rainforest, evil awaits sixteen-year-old Michael Sundquist and his mother, Katharine, an anthropologist who has come to the Islands to study the unusual skeletal remains unearthed on the volcanic flanks of Haleakala, Maui.
Yet far below the black depths of the Pacific a mysterious substance snakes through undiscovered fissures in the ocean floor, as nature itself seems to portend the terror to come.
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Dr. Katherine Sundquist is an archaeologist who has recently begun studying hominid bones discovered near a volcano on the island of Maui. When her young son goes diving nearby, he discovers a geode from outer space, and subsequently his lungs can no longer tolerate oxygen. Soon Katherine discovers that a local astronomer has been receiving radio signals from space that include a DNA code. Could aliens be attempting to alter human genetic make-up?
| PraiseKirkus
"Nicely done indeed: strange, disturbing goings-on, with only two spoonsful of outrageous melodrama." 07/01/1997 |
| Author Bio| John Saul | | After graduating from high school in 1959, John Saul went to Antioch College. Six years, four colleges, and at least three different majors later, he abandoned notions of higher education and decided that he would become a writer. He worked a series of temporary jobs while sending multiple manuscripts to various publishers until 1976, when an outline for a novel--his first flirtation with the horror genre--was met with approval at Dell Publishing. The resulting novel, SUFFER THE CHILDREN, one of the first paperbacks to be advertised on television, became an enormous bestseller, though the book was roundly disliked by critics, who were disturbed by its depictions of violence by and against children. This criticism of his work has followed him, as many of his books feature children and teenagers as main characters. Nevertheless, Saul's subsequent books--written on an average of one per year since 1977--have consistently been bestsellers. In addition to his novels, Saul has written for the stage, as well as lecturing at various writer conferences. |
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