Vengeful Gray aliens abandon a humiliating Cretaceous-era colonization failure and time travel to present-day Earth, seeking a doomsday weapon left behind on a shipwreck lost to time in what is now the Amazon''s vast unexplored wilderness.
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Book Two in The Powers That Be trilogy, THE LOST SHIP, immerses readers in the day-after chaos, carnage, and confusion following the near-apocalyptic ending of THE GOLDEN ELLIPSE.
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An offer they can''t refuse: Rachel and Owen Haig convalesce in a decimated Cairo hospital following their death-defying heroism beneath the Giza Plateau, contending with unwanted notoriety and a job proposal from The Powers That Be.
The fourth kind: The diabolical time-traveling Grays hijack a lunar-bound medevac, imprisoning the crew in a mind-bending nightmare where startling revelations resolve from the terrifying shadows.
Never let a disaster go to waste: A megalomaniacal tech mogul projects international rage onto the lone entity athwart his post-invasion new world order plan: The Powers That Be. Meanwhile, his failsafe manifests in a distant ancestor''s leather-bound journal containing cryptic clues to a doomsday device buried in the heart of the Amazon.
Lost worlds: Artemus Pennywell, the ageless PTB CEO, parries post-invasion gut punches, overseeing relief efforts alongside his quintessential replicant, Andrew. With cutthroat mercenaries-and the ruthless Grays-searching for the lost ship, he dispatches eccentric scientist Richard King and new PTB agents Rachel and Owen to the Amazon in a race against time to secure the prehistoric payload. Trekking unexplored jungle teeming with danger, paths collide on a perilous descent into a primeval rift protected by a ghostly cannibal tribe.
THE LOST SHIP twists and turns through post-invasion ruins to the heart of the Amazon, where a supernatural revelation illuminates humankind''s destiny in a cerulean glow.
Includes an excerpt from THE BLUE SPARK, The Powers That Be | Book Three