R. K. van Spengen Libros

Parce qu'elle s'est cruellement moquée de son neveu wui a tenté de se tuer, le séduisant Nicholas de Chantale est déterminé à retrouver la trop belle Mara pour le venger.

"September 1858: An Antarctic whaler stumbles on an aged wreck, its grisly frozen crew guarding crates of odd antiquities - and a skull carved from black obsidian." "March 2001: A team of anthropologists gazes in awe at a wall of strange inscriptions, moments before a blast seals them deep within the Colorado rock.". "April 2001: A research ship manned by Dirk Pitt and members of the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency is set upon and nearly sunk by an impossibility - a vessel that should have died fifty-six years before.". "Pitt knows that somehow all these incidents are connected, and his investigations soon land him deep in an ancient mystery with very modern consequences, up against a diabolical enemy unlike any he has ever known, and racing to save not only his own life - but the future of the world itself."--BOOK JACKET.

En 1954, el vuelo Vixen 03 y su mortífero cargamento, un arma ultrasecreta, no llegan a su misterioso destino. La investigación oficial dictamina que el avión ha caído en el océano. En 1988, Dirk Pitt descubre restos del Vixen 03 en las heladas aguas de un río de Colorado. Parte de su cargamento ha sido sustraído por un grupo terrorista africano con intenciones de provocar una catástrofe en Washington. Pero ni siquiera los terroristas conocen las terribles consecuencias que podrían provocar con su actitud, porque muy pocas personas saben la verdad sobre el cargamento del Vixen 03.

They have money, power and arrogance--and the world is theirs. Beautiful and unspoiled, Sara Coleville knows she can play their game. Now her fine-bred defiance and brazen masquerades have excited Marco Marcantoni--enflaming the hot-blooded duke's most shameles passions and wildest desires. He vows he will have her, in secrecy and seclusion--to use until all his needs are satisfied. But Sara's innocence is deceptive. And it is she who must ultimately prevail in this world where wealth makes love easy...and passion makes it dangerous.